Most anthropologists are doing straightforward…

“What the ethnographer is in fact faced with—except when (as, of course, he must do) he is pursuing the more automatized routines of data…

— Clifford Geertz

“Yes, it is true that one generally needs to speak to the members of the key audience for a product or service. But as…

— Patricia L. Sunderland

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

Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people.' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs, and behavior…

— Marvin Harris

“In marked contrast to the relaxed, typically Latin attitude of the Dominicans the Protestant missionaries were still proceeding at full blast with the fight…

— Philippe Descola

“...tales in search of an excuse for their telling.”

— John Van Maanen

If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first…

— William Graham Sumner

Social media is less about technology and more about anthropology, sociology, and ethnography.

— Brian Solis

I do feel a kinship with anthropology or ethnography, although when you hear those terms you think of something exotic. Generally, photographic anthropology has…

— Ari Marcopoulos

The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where,…

— Bronislaw Malinowski

The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by…

— Franz Boas

...to make the world safe for democracy.

— Woodrow Wilson

Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and…

— Neil Postman

The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

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