Anthropologist Quotes
25 quotes by 25 authors
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I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm…
— Erykah Badu
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To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I'm the person I want…
— Bernie Siegel
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Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is, be…
— Thomas Kuhn
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God created animals. And they’re loving; they’re beautiful. I feel the way (anthropologist) Jane Goodall does or any of those naturalists. I don’t find my…
— Michael Jackson
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Among the Indians, as among other nations, some people are born artists, but most are not. I am a born artist. I have as much…
— Norval Morrisseau
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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, armed…
— Bronislaw Malinowski
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I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist
— Clifford Geertz
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It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.
— Gregory Bateson
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Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as the science of…
— Rudolf Virchow
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The Restless Anthropologist is a rich, powerful, and compulsively readable collection of essays by anthropologists who look back at the multiple relationships between their serial…
— Sherry Ortner
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I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.
— Ken Burns
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Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and efficient…
— Neil Postman
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We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing waft or breeze…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Nothing is more detestable to the physical anthropologist than... the wretched habit of cremating the dead. It involves not only a prodigal waste of costly…
— Earnest Hooton
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Beyond Bookchinâ€, David Watson, of Fifth Estate, argues that aboriginal society represents a viable Utopia. He quotes favourably the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins; “We are inclined…
— Marshall Sahlins
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Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it - life begins in slime and ends in intelligence - whereas traditional cultures…
— Huston Smith
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How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion? By thinking of the organizational ideas that…
— Edmund Leach
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As a social anthropologist, I naturally accept and even stress the fact that there are major differences, both mental and psychological, which separate the different…
— Louis Leakey
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The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one of…
— Claude Levi-Strauss
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I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend…
— George Lucas
Who Wrote These Anthropologist Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 25 Anthropologist Quotes as follows: