Anthropologist Quote by Margaret Mead

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,…

— Bronislaw Malinowski

My father is a cultural anthropologist and my mother ran an outpatient clinic and treated a lot of people who had been institutionalised. I…

— Eliza Hittman

The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist.

— Reggie Watts

The Restless Anthropologist is a rich, powerful, and compulsively readable collection of essays by anthropologists who look back at the multiple relationships between their…

— Sherry Ortner

I spent nearly two years in a small village - perhaps seventy families. I've never worked harder or learned so much so fast in…

— James C. Scott

As a journalist, or an anthropologist, the convention is that people are there for you to study, and they are your objects.

— Annia Ciezadlo

An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a field trip to New Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive that they…

— David Letterman

Fish did not discover water.

— Marshall McLuhan

The fish will be the last to discover water.

— Jerome Bruner

“If fish were scientists, probably the last thing they would discover is water!”

— William J. Webb

Anthropology... has always been highly dependent upon photography... As the use of still photography - and moving pictures - has become increasingly essential as…

— Margaret Mead