I've always seen it as literary or scienceish depending on the sub-discipline. Cultural anthropology, particularly that which studies folklore and mythology? Probably more like a literary thing (or, perhaps, sociological?). Linguistics that studies how we speak and how our brains process language and all that? sciencey.

I guess I can see the benefits of both types of study applied to the different disciplines within anthropology. I'm an English major myself, but if I'd been smarter going into school, I'd be an anthropologist studying folklore. OMG, I wish I were smarter when I started school. I would love to be an expert on some bit of folklore that no layperson would ever think of as "folklore" (because it's not a fairy tale, of course). Or, you know, what my dream job has been since high school: researching links between transmission of folk practices (music, stories, art, clothing design, food...) and exchange/evolution of language between different communities.

Instead, I studied English, because everyone told me I should, and the university I ended up going to had a very limited anthropology program. (Mostly focused on archaeology, I think?)