Anarchism and anthropology go well together because…

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

Anthropology... has always been highly dependent upon photography... As the use of still photography - and moving pictures - has become increasingly essential as…

— Margaret Mead

“Of all the modern social sciences, anthropology is the one historically most closely tied to colonialism, since it was often the case that anthropologists…

— Edward Said

The Restless Anthropologist is a rich, powerful, and compulsively readable collection of essays by anthropologists who look back at the multiple relationships between their…

— Sherry Ortner

Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science has proved correct. Politicians…

— Lancelot Hogben

“Instead of looking for explanations for the fact of inequality, anthropologists should look for the explanation for the notion of equality.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

The real controversy comes with anthropologists - not all, but some - who see themselves as studying culture, and they then see culture from…

— Hal Whitehead

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

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should

— Clifford Geertz

“The raw data of anthropologists can be misleading; it can make the differences in values between cultures appear greater than they are...It is only…

— James Rachels

“It is not a scientific proposition to determine that some cultures lack political power because they show nothing similar to what is found in…

— Pierre Clastres