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Perfect for fans and those looking for motivation, our collection of Anthropologist Quotes will inspire and resonate with you. Anthropologist Quotes

Rene Girard

I am fundamentally an anthropologist and a rationalist. What I say is that human societies are very different from what specialists call ‘animal society’ because the former have religion.

– Rene Girard

Reggie Watts

I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist. I try not to talk about something unless it’s something I love. But if it’s something that really annoys me, I fixate on it, learn something about it and then, when I’m onstage, it comes out.

– Reggie Watts

Ken Burns

I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.

– Ken Burns

Jeremy Wade

I’ve become an accidental anthropologist.

– Jeremy Wade

Hampton Sides

I’ve sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it’s Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I’m fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.

– Hampton Sides

Gregory Bateson

It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.

– Gregory Bateson

Greg Grandin

Kissinger’s unusually high body count and singular moral imperiousness has the effect, among his critics, of obscuring his didactic utility. An outsized personality who has committed outsized mayhem, Kissinger eclipses his own context. Yet, as animals were to the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, Kissinger is good to think with.

– Greg Grandin

Erykah Badu

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

Eliezer Yudkowsky

An anthropologist will not excitedly report of a newly discovered tribe: ‘They eat food! They breathe air! They use tools! They tell each other stories!’ We humans forget how alike we are, living in a world that only reminds us of our differences.

– Eliezer Yudkowsky

Clifford Geertz

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.

– Clifford Geertz

Carolyn Kizer

I didn’t learn much about writing at Sarah Lawrence, but I learned a lot about the sources of poems – dreams, myth, history – from the really great teachers, Joseph Campbell, Charles Trinkhaus, Bert Loewenberg, and a young Australian anthropologist named Harry Hawthorne.

– Carolyn Kizer

Annabelle Wallis

I wanted to be an anthropologist and travel.

– Annabelle Wallis

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