Too often, the anthropologist takes on the role of police…

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

I specialise in taking teams of designers, psychologists, usability experts, sociologists and ethnographers into the field. It's called 'corporate anthropology,' but personally I'm more…

— Jan Chipchase

“not to be a trained anthropologist --”

— Anonymous

If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist,…

— Kathy Reichs

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

— Joan Didion

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.

— 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