Anthropologists Quote by Jared Diamond

“That settles it,” said Mr. Trapwood. “We’re going back to the pension. We’re going to pack. We’re going to be on the Bishop first…

— Eva Ibbotson

“They had lived their older lives like strangers from different shipwrecks, washed up on the same island, without the benefit of a common language.”

— Tracy Guzeman

“They tried to explain to the missionaries that it was they who put Adam and Eve out of the village because they was naked.…

— Alice Walker

“While he rested, she asked, 'What's the difference between natives and outsiders?' 'Natives,' he replied, 'eat indoors and shit outdoors, outsiders eat outdoors and…

— John Cage

“Can you be sure that others have not come before you and destroyed the pristine state of the native myth? Can you be sure…

— Carl Sagan

“Whoever said that thing about how no man is an island probably doesn't live on one.”

— Tim Hall

I saw The Revenant, and they were calling Native Americans "tree niggers," and that is not cool.

— Vince Staples

“There had, of course, been no golden-haired boys; there hadn’t been any boys at all. What there had been was a leper colony, run…

— Eva Ibbotson

“Where once there were deep forests and blue rivers and streams, the island was a barren land now. The forests were gone. The rivers…

— Sudha Murty

“Everyone in the tribe believed in life after death and the spirit’s ability to be reborn and live again in a new body. The…

— M.J. Rose

“Only when the last tree is cut; only when the last river is polluted; only when the last fish is caught; only then will…

— Terry Ross

“The natives who saw him walking alone, and later brought him back to the town for burial, said he was whistling when he went.…

— Frederick Forsyth