Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what…

“When you have paid a hundred and thirty pounds bride-price and you are only a second-class clerk, you find you haven’t got any more…

— Chinua Achebe

“It has been said that marriages are arranged by Heaven, that destiny will bring even the most distantly separated people together, that all is…

— Lisa See

Marriages had different meanings back then than they do now, they were used to cement agreements between families, business deals and things like that.…

— Jared Harris

There is no denying that unhappiness - even violence - exists in some arranged marriages. Or that some arranged marriages are borne out of…

— Elizabeth Flock

The only thing that I find repetitive is the number of marriages I have arranged in films. That is one thing I stay away…

— Alok Nath

As a social anthropologist, I naturally accept and even stress the fact that there are major differences, both mental and psychological, which separate the…

— Louis Leakey

Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it - life begins in slime and ends in intelligence - whereas traditional…

— Huston Smith

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

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

— Robert Graves

What if the book (of Genesis) is describing a dawning awareness of the world? The anthropologist Edmund Leach has argued that the 'bit' or…

— Charles Hampden-Turner

Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000…

— Terence McKenna

What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didnt have anthropologists.

— Jared Diamond

The world of rumor and gossip is like a privileged world with which a social scientist or an anthropologist can take the temperature of…

— James C. Scott

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

“Increasingly anthropologists are being asked "what can you do for us?" by the people whose societies they are doing research on. It is sometimes…

— Anthony Seeger