Anthropologist Quotes

25 Anthropologist quotes by 25 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist — Clifford Geertz
It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist. — Gregory Bateson
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
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… — Unknown Author
I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head. — Ken Burns
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
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
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
Beyond Bookchin”, 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
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
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
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
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
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
If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get… — Kathy Reichs
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours. — Vine Deloria, Jr.
The American Indians were Communists. They were. Every anthropologist will tell you they were Communists. No rich, no poor. If somebody needed something the community… — Pete Seeger
I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist. — Elizabeth Kostova
A dear friend of my early childhood has worked as an anthropologist in Papua New Guinea for much of her life, and from the tiny… — Michael Leunig

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