Every city, every town, every region in USA has these…

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

In high school, my friend and I discovered that your cable-access station had to let you do whatever you wanted - it was like…

— Michael Schur

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

— Annia Ciezadlo

Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.

— Helen Fisher

People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely oral people…

— Neil Postman

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

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

“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

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

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

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