You know, a lot of girls go out with me just to further their careers...damn anthropologists. — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
The world of rumor and gossip is like a privileged world with which a social scientist or an anthropologist can take the… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists classify the group as a subspecies. — Patricia Marx Copy Share Image
The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist. — Elizabeth Cook-Lynn Copy Share Image
As a group, anthropologists are not too fond of people who work in the business world. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
As a journalist, or an anthropologist, the convention is that people are there for you to study, and they are your objects. — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didnt have anthropologists. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a field trip to New Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
“Anthropologists call tribes segmentary societies because of the way in which the different lineages or segments can be fitted together for particular… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
What if the book (of Genesis) is describing a dawning awareness of the world? The anthropologist Edmund Leach has argued that the… — Charles Hampden-Turner Copy Share Image
Beyond Bookchin”, David Watson, of Fifth Estate, argues that aboriginal society represents a viable Utopia. He quotes favourably the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins;… — Marshall Sahlins Copy Share Image
Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
Thinking is a social process. I talk to everyone from children to anthropologists and philosophers. I try my ideas out on people… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
In the past two decades anthropologists have gathered data on life and death in pre-state societies rather than accepting the warm and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
We chose to do this work mathematically, which has the advantage of precision but is not always appreciated by readers. It is… — Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza Copy Share Image
“We should be careful, though, not to judge the Aché too quickly. Anthropologists who lived with them for years report that violence… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it - life begins in slime and ends in intelligence -… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
If you explain so clearly that nobody can misunderstand, somebody will. If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Should an anthropologist or a sociologist be looking for a bizarre society to study, I would suggest he come to Ulster. It… — Bernadette Devlin Copy Share Image
“Increasingly anthropologists are being asked "what can you do for us?" by the people whose societies they are doing research on. It… — Anthony Seeger Copy Share Image
I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it with a… — Michael Dorris Copy Share Image
Certain anthropologists hold that man, having discovered tools, ceased to evolve biologically. Animals, never having discovered them, continue to fashion drills out… — Stuart Chase Copy Share Image
Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist. — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Art is a way you discover the past, and so it brings the past into the present and the future. That's why… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
God created animals. And they’re loving; they’re beautiful. I feel the way (anthropologist) Jane Goodall does or any of those naturalists. I… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject… [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
As soon as you take out a pencil and paper with the Indians, you're one thing to them - an anthropologist -… — Ruth Beebe Hill Copy Share Image
Among the Indians, as among other nations, some people are born artists, but most are not. I am a born artist. I… — Norval Morrisseau Copy Share Image
Nothing is more detestable to the physical anthropologist than... the wretched habit of cremating the dead. It involves not only a prodigal… — Earnest Hooton Copy Share Image
John Colman Wood's The Names of Things is a thoughtful, patient, and ultimately rewarding book. It's about, among many other things, the… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
I was surprised by the level of sophistication of the Special Operation forces. Among them were anthropologists and PhD candidates. I felt… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must,… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
As a social anthropologist, I naturally accept and even stress the fact that there are major differences, both mental and psychological, which… — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
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