Anthropologists

I’m a complete human

I’m a complete human being. I’m very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I’m a sociologist, anthropologist. Erykah Badu

You know, a lot

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

I wondered why she

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

The joke used to

The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist. Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

My father is a cultural anthropologist and my mother ran an outpatient clinic and treated a lot of people who had been institutionalised. I was very fascinated with behaviour and criminology and why people do things that don’t make any sense. I would probe my mother: \”Why? Why would somebody do this?\” And look for … Read more

I was surprised by

I was surprised by the level of sophistication of the Special Operation forces. Among them were anthropologists and PhD candidates. I felt because I understand the patterns of nineteenth-century jihad in West Africa that I was definitely going to be more advanced than they were in comprehending what the militant rallying cry was. Eliza Griswold

How can a modern

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. Edmund Leach

The anthropologists are busy,

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. Edith Hamilton

Nothing is more detestable

Nothing is more detestable to the physical anthropologist than… the wretched habit of cremating the dead. It involves not only a prodigal waste of costly fuel and excellent fertilizer, but also the complete destruction of physical historical data. On the other hand, the custom of embalming and mummification is most praiseworthy and highly to be … Read more

The historical development of

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 Franz Boas