An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a…

If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.

— Margaret Mead

As a journalist, or an anthropologist, the convention is that people are there for you to study, and they are your objects.

— Annia Ciezadlo

I spent nearly two years in a small village - perhaps seventy families. I've never worked harder or learned so much so fast in…

— James C. Scott

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

My father is a cultural anthropologist and my mother ran an outpatient clinic and treated a lot of people who had been institutionalised. I…

— Eliza Hittman

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

I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist.

— Reggie Watts

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

“I am an anthropologist who lost faith in her own method, who stopped believing that observable activity defined anthropos.”

— Joan Didion

I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist. I try not to talk about something unless it's something I love. But if it's something…

— Reggie Watts

I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.

— Elizabeth Kostova

A dear friend of my early childhood has worked as an anthropologist in Papua New Guinea for much of her life, and from the…

— Michael Leunig

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist

— Clifford Geertz

“And what does an anthropologist do these days?" sad Paul. "Same thing a supernumerary minister does--becomes a public charge, a bore, or possibly a…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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