I am an anthropologist who lost faith in her own method…

“I began to make notes. I began to write down everything I saw and heard and remembered and imagined. I began to write, or…

— Joan Didion

“Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is “nothing.”

— Joan Didion

“Why do we like these stories so? Why do we tell them over and over? Why have we made a folk hero of a…

— Joan Didion

“I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company…

— joan didion

“By means of the notion of “cultural evolution,” the democratic anthropologist tries to avoid questions of biology.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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 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 consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist.

— 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

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

— Annia Ciezadlo

An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a field trip to New Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive that they…

— David Letterman

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