Anthropologist Quotes

I've become an accidental anthropologist.

— Jeremy Wade

“… matter out of place, as a famous anthropologist once described dirt.”

— Howard Jacobson

I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.

— Elizabeth Kostova

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

— Annia Ciezadlo

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist

— Clifford Geertz

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

— David Letterman

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

— Kathy Reichs

If somebody had said to me in June or July of 1987, 'We'd like you to become chairman of the Federal Reserve,…

— Alan Greenspan

An anthropologist will not excitedly report of a newly discovered tribe: 'They eat food! They breathe air! They use tools! They tell…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

A dear friend of my early childhood has worked as an anthropologist in Papua New Guinea for much of her life, and…

— Michael Leunig

“I find it disturbing that one anthropologist's readings of transcripts are being listened to more seriously than 40 senior health service clinicians.…

— Valerie Sinason

The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

“And what does an anthropologist do these days?" sad Paul. "Same thing a supernumerary minister does--becomes a public charge, a bore, or…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's…

— Bronislaw Malinowski

I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist. I try not to talk about something unless it's something I love. But if…

— Reggie Watts

I wanted to be an anthropologist and travel.

— Annabelle Wallis

I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist.

— Reggie Watts

“not to be a trained anthropologist --”

— Anonymous

“For matter out of place, as a famous anthropologist once described dirt.”

— Howard Jacobson

If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.

— Margaret Mead

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

— Joan Didion

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

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.

— Ken Burns

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, 'Ours.'

— Anonymous

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

“Too often, the anthropologist takes on the role of police detective, discovering what is "hidden," assembling "evidence" to make a strong "case"...…

— Liisa H. Malkki

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

— Jan Chipchase

I spent nearly two years in a small village - perhaps seventy families. I've never worked harder or learned so much so…

— James C. Scott

The Restless Anthropologist is a rich, powerful, and compulsively readable collection of essays by anthropologists who look back at the multiple relationships…

— Sherry Ortner