Anthropologists Quotes

“For anthropologists, even the exotic’s not exotic, let alone the everyday.”
― Tom McCarthy, Satin Island

“He saw himself as a hated prier into the homes of strangers, a kind of intellectual charlatan rationalizing his own prurience into scientific curiosity; someone at once lower and more pretentious than a professional social worker.”
― Harry Sylvester, Dayspring

“Like other people, anthropologists may see only what they want to see, even when what they want to see is nothing.”
― J. Budziszewski, What We Can't Not Know: A Guide

“Among most of the peoples that anthropologists are familiar with, true manhood is a precious and elusive status beyond mere maleness, a hortatory image that men and boys aspire to and that their culture demands of them as a measure of belonging.”
― David D. Gilmore, Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity