Alienation Quote by Susan Sontag

“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

In philosophical anthropology, ... where the subject is man in his wholeness, the investigator cannot content himself, as in anthropology as an individual science,…

— Martin Buber

“Anthropology is never an exact science; the observer never experiences the same culture as the participant. But these are natural limitations inherent to the…

— Orson Scott Card

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

— John Dominic Crossan

The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs from the…

— George Steiner

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should

— Clifford Geertz

Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. Granted, you don't have the physical disruption and disorientation, but writing a novel is like…

— Lily King

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

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 do feel a kinship with anthropology or ethnography, although when you hear those terms you think of something exotic. Generally, photographic anthropology has…

— Ari Marcopoulos

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

“The greatest discovery any alien anthropologist could make about our culture is our overriding response to failure: If it didn't work last year, do…

— Daniel Quinn