I learned from the Macarturos. I had never been at a table with a labor organizer and a playwright and a performance… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The dogma of cultural relativism is challenged by the very people for whose moral benefit the anthropologists established it in the first… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion? By thinking of the… — Edmund Leach Copy Share Image
Milla Jovovich introduced me to [anthropologist and author of the Don Juan series of books involving shamanic peyote rituals] Carlos Castaneda because… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Every city, every town, every region in USA has these weird things - the way they pronounce words, or what they call… — Michael Schur Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Anthropologists visit the temple sites and read the inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the… — Carlos Barrios Copy Share Image
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The loss of body hair is interesting to anthropologists, because it is a feature that distinguishes us from our nearest living relatives,… — Mark Stoneking Copy Share Image
When I first got the job, I was told nothing about my character. She's an anthropologist and she's tough, she's a female… — Rebecca Mader Copy Share Image
You can lose a reader in a blink of an eye. If a person is an engineer or chemist or an anthropologist… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Our job should be like any other forensic scientist's - we should be truth seekers who are not partisan, who do not… — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
I think of companies like Nokia having anthropologists who study how people use cell phones, who do that kind of commercial and… — Lily King Copy Share Image
The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The philosophical anthropologist ... can know the wholeness of the person and through it the wholeness of man only when he does… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Anthropology... has always been highly dependent upon photography... As the use of still photography - and moving pictures - has become increasingly… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I'm the… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in… — Lily King Copy Share Image
The ideal for me is to mix it up. When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
There are very few things I would love to do other than a life of writing, and I think being a singer-songwriter… — Lily King Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say the anthropologists were making art, but they were definitely justifying their practices with very personal reasoning, passion, and they… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
