If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would…

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

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 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

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 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

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

Fish did not discover water.

— Marshall McLuhan

The fish will be the last to discover water.

— Jerome Bruner

“If fish were scientists, probably the last thing they would discover is water!”

— William J. Webb

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

— Margaret Mead

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