I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.
Quotes about anthropologist (12 Quotes)
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject. . . . The anthropologist submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner alienation as an urban intellectual.
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, "Ours."
Any journalist who doesn't stick to the day's news is sort of part journalist, part anthropologist. Once the excuse for the story stops being - it happened today - then you're square right in the other territory of journalism, which is just straight up documenting of how we live, and what we think of each other.
It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.
Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and efficient method of deciding which ones were worth his attention Upon receiving a new book, he immediately checked the index to see if his name was cited, and how often. The more Malinowski the more compelling the book. No Malinowski, and he doubted the subject of the book was anthropology at all.
The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own one of them unfurls the range of human societies in time, the other in space.
When the Russians succeeded in putting the first satellite into orbit, one of their scientists is reported to have said, 'Now that we have conquered space, our next conquest is that of man.' An American anthropologist, Leslie A. White, of the University of Michigan, is reported in a Detroit newspaper as saying, 'A cultural system which can launch earth satellites can dispense with Gods entirely.' This is a great day for the false scientistthey who have left God out of their education. Of these the Apostle Paul even in his day warned his weakening convert, Timothy, to beware of O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called. (I Timothy 6 20.)
How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion By thinking of the organizational ideas that are present in any society as a mathematical pattern.
I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.
I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.
I once had aspirations to be an anthropologist, and I know from anthropology that people will not accept difficult political instructions or governmental decisions from somebody who is totally divorced from them. If it doesn't speak the same language, it's no good.