Anthropologists Quotes

Anthropologists Quote of the day

The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should

You know, a lot of girls go out with me just to further their careers...damn anthropologists.

Not even anthropologists or intellectuals, no matter how many books they have, can find out all our secrets.

Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology

As a group, anthropologists are not too fond of people who work in the business world.

Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.

Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist.

Anthropologists say that in every culture in history, children have played the game hide and seek.

I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the Iliad, and listened for an hour to talk about bull-roarers and leopard-societies.

As soon as you take out a pencil and paper with the Indians, you're one thing to them - an anthropologist - and what they tell to anthropologists is always distorted.

The loss of body hair is interesting to anthropologists, because it is a feature that distinguishes us from our nearest living relatives, chimpanzees. They have body hair, we don't.

Thinking is a social process. I talk to everyone from children to anthropologists and philosophers. I try my ideas out on people and they talk back to you. That's how ideas get formed.

Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in fictional form.

What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didnt have anthropologists.

I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.

The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.