Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should — Clifford Geertz 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
Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price. — Louis Leakey 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
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
Not even anthropologists or intellectuals, no matter how many books they have, can find out all our secrets. — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
Anthropologists say that in every culture in history, children have played the game hide and seek. — Rob Brezsny 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
I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Texans are the only race of people known to anthropologists who do not depend on breeding for propagation. Like princes and lords,… — J. Frank Dobie 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
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
“Of all the modern social sciences, anthropology is the one historically most closely tied to colonialism, since it was often the case… — Edward Said 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
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
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
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as… — Rudolf Virchow 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
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
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
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
When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
You know, a lot of girls go out with me just to further their careers...damn anthropologists. — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“(Present-day anthropologists defend the thesis that the American Indians were in fact originally Mongolians who crossed over by the Bering Strait.)” — Barbara W. Tuchman 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
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
“Instead of looking for explanations for the fact of inequality, anthropologists should look for the explanation for the notion of equality.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila 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
In business and organizational settings, cultural anthropologists observe what people are doing, observe their habits, listen to their stories, capture the meaning… — Randi Zuckerberg 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
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
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