Anthropology Quote by Mary Doria Russell

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

— Clifford Geertz

I find anthropology is a marvellous discipline to shock me out of my own world into another world.

— John Dominic Crossan

I feel like I studied anthropology in college for a reason.

— Zal Batmanglij

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

“Studying anthropology tends t change the way you look at the world. It leaves a distinctive chip in your brain, or lens over your…

— Gillian Tett

Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what…

— Clifford Geertz

Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you…

— Clifford Geertz

I wasn't a big fan of social anthropology. And, luckily, that created room for me to work in visual arts because I sort of…

— Darren Aronofsky

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

— Alfred L. Kroeber

I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions.

— Cosima Spender

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

— Lily King

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should

— Clifford Geertz