Accused Quote by Clifford Geertz

Maybe if I'd studied writing instead of anthropology, I'd be more sensible. You know - pick a genre, follow the rules, stay in the…

— Mary Doria Russell

Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in fictional form.

— Lily King

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

— Clifford Geertz

Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on.

— Lily King

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist

— Clifford Geertz

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.

— Alfred L. Kroeber

I like to do the research of history and the creativity of writing fiction. I am creating this thing which I think is twice…

— Philippa Gregory

I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain…

— Italo Calvino

There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving…

— Alan Dundes

Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the…

— Anonymous

Can fiction teach us? Absolutely. Fiction has the power to illustrate place, era, and atmosphere in vivid detail. But it is not Anthropology for…

— Celeste Ng

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