Anthropology Quote by Lily King

It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been…

— Clifford Geertz

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

— Clifford Geertz

For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build solidly grounded…

— Margaret Mead

If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see…

— Clifford Geertz

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

I remember once asking Grandma about a book she was reading, a biography of Abraham Lincoln, and how she answered me: this was the…

— Joyce Carol Oates

We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on…

— Clifford Geertz

“Lady Jane Gray, who tho' inferior to her lovely Cousin the Queen of Scots, was yet an amiable young woman & famous for reading…

— Jane Austen

She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set…

— Charles Frazier

“What the ethnographer is in fact faced with—except when (as, of course, he must do) he is pursuing the more automatized routines of data…

— Clifford Geertz

“And that is to say, of course, that you can "read" a culture without its literature, without the bother of gathering and holding its…

— Richard Mitchell

The world was hers for the reading.

— Betty Smith