[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I…

“Marriage," "mating," and "love" are socially constructed phenomena that have little or no transferable meaning outside any given culture. The examples we've noted of…

— Christopher Ryan

Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject… [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner…

— Susan Sontag

“A geneticist is a geek who claims to have proven through regression analyses that a Neanderthal had sex with your great-grandmother 50,000 years ago.”

— Bill Gaede

Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level that one…

— Arthur Kleinman

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.

— Joan D. Vinge

Modern anthropology ... opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will not grow,…

— John Carroll

For me, a bit of anthropology in the evening is always better than staying and watching the telly.

— Nick Rhodes

When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this particular approach…

— Rebecca Goldstein

I didn't major in anthropology in college, but I do feel I had an education in different cultures very early on. My parents divorced…

— Lily King

Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet.

— Michael Brian Schiffer

“All social interactions require some loss of freedom.”

— Erol Ozan

“Morphological anthropology applied to the physical study of children, is also a strong element in the growth of the new pedagogy.”

— Montessori Maria

There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.

— Anonymous

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

— Jane Howard

It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been…

— Clifford Geertz