“… matter out of place, as a famous anthropologist once described dirt.” — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“For matter out of place, as a famous anthropologist once described dirt.” — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“I am an anthropologist who lost faith in her own method, who stopped believing that observable activity defined anthropos.” — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist. — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
“By means of the notion of “cultural evolution,” the democratic anthropologist tries to avoid questions of biology.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“The contemporary anthropologist, under democrats' severe gaze, skips quickly over ethnic differences like over hot coals.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
As a journalist, or an anthropologist, the convention is that people are there for you to study, and they are your objects. — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a field trip to New Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
If somebody had said to me in June or July of 1987, 'We'd like you to become chairman of the Federal Reserve,… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
An anthropologist will not excitedly report of a newly discovered tribe: 'They eat food! They breathe air! They use tools! They tell… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
A dear friend of my early childhood has worked as an anthropologist in Papua New Guinea for much of her life, and… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“I find it disturbing that one anthropologist's readings of transcripts are being listened to more seriously than 40 senior health service clinicians.… — Valerie Sinason Copy Share Image
“Too often, the anthropologist takes on the role of police detective, discovering what is "hidden," assembling "evidence" to make a strong "case"...… — Liisa H. Malkki Copy Share Image
The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
The Restless Anthropologist is a rich, powerful, and compulsively readable collection of essays by anthropologists who look back at the multiple relationships… — Sherry Ortner Copy Share Image
My father is a cultural anthropologist and my mother ran an outpatient clinic and treated a lot of people who had been… — Eliza Hittman Copy Share Image
The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think.… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, 'Ours.' — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not a computer guy. I'm like an anthropologist. I'm fascinated with people's obsessions. I've learned to wear them. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I specialise in taking teams of designers, psychologists, usability experts, sociologists and ethnographers into the field. It's called 'corporate anthropology,' but personally… — Jan Chipchase Copy Share Image
“And what does an anthropologist do these days?" sad Paul. "Same thing a supernumerary minister does--becomes a public charge, a bore, or… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist. I try not to talk about something unless it's something I love. But if… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
I spent nearly two years in a small village - perhaps seventy families. I've never worked harder or learned so much so… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
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