Anthropology Quote by John Van Maanen Download Open image ““...tales in search of an excuse for their telling.”” — John Van Maanen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anthropology Ethnography Storytelling Writing
“We're all storytellers. We choose to tell ourselves the kind of tale we want to hear.” — Danielle Ganek Copy Share Image
“I had been brought up to believe that you never told tales, and that you should fight your own battles” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When someone is telling you their story over and over, they are trying to figure something out.” — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Copy Share Image
“Anything that distracts from the story you are trying to tell should be promptly and mercilessly dealt with.” — Craig Hart Copy Share Image
“They know my story, but I don't know theirs. That is why I keep doing it.” — Celine Dion Copy Share Image
“People don’t expect you to pay attention to the little telltale clues they leave scattered around them.” — J.A. Jance Copy Share Image
“Marriage," "mating," and "love" are socially constructed phenomena that have little or no transferable meaning outside any given culture. The examples we've noted of… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject… [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“A geneticist is a geek who claims to have proven through regression analyses that a Neanderthal had sex with your great-grandmother 50,000 years ago.” — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level that one… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future. — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
Modern anthropology ... opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will not grow,… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
For me, a bit of anthropology in the evening is always better than staying and watching the telly. — Nick Rhodes Copy Share Image
When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this particular approach… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I didn't major in anthropology in college, but I do feel I had an education in different cultures very early on. My parents divorced… — Lily King Copy Share Image
Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet. — Michael Brian Schiffer Copy Share Image
There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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