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

— Liisa H. Malkki

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

— Sherry Ortner

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

— Jan Chipchase

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

— Claude Levi-Strauss

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

— Joan Didion

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

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

— Kathy Reichs

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

— Anonymous

The drive behind life has lost none of its power; proof that, impelled by that drive, man can build as well as destroy; that…

— Anonymous

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.

— Anonymous

Man is a free moral agent and can be magnanimous and deal disinterestedly, humanity is a definite goal, social justice is desirable and possible,…

— Anonymous

Can any one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image of a man, but in that of a changeable,…

— Anonymous