Abraham Verghese

Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

Ethiopian Author

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.

American Comedian

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.

American Writer

Robert Graves

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.

Irish Novelist

Alice Roberts

As an anthropologist, I believe strongly in our common humanity. We can rise above the tribal divisions that have caused so much anguish and real damage in the past.

English Scientist

Gregory Bateson

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

British Scientist

Ken Burns

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

American Director

Helen Fisher

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

American Scientist

Annabelle Wallis

I wanted to be an anthropologist and travel.

English Actress

Jeremy Wade

I've become an accidental anthropologist.

Anthropologist refers to professionals in an academic or research setting, indicating high education level.

Academic Field

Anthropologists study contemporary cultures and societies, not just ancient ones.

Not Just History

Beyond just cultures, anthropologists may investigate languages, biology, and archaeological records.

Broader Focus

 died during this process and I'll show you why I think that what I've tried to do then is say it's to say okay people are coming through they've got stories are interesting how can anthropology help us put names and faces to these migrants were coming who are coming through the desert and why is it important as an anthropologist I use a bunch of different tools the first one

A New Age of Exploration...

 hoping to unlock the psychological roots of mass murder. Anthropologists showed the images to remote communities as a sort of universal personality test. Employers made prejudiced hiring decisions based on reductive decoding charts. As the test left clinics and entered popular culture its reputation among medical professionals plummeted,

How does the Rorschach...

 these Africans which were you know all the anthropologist of the Africans cutting themselves off or all these protests images of us and I realized that the only way we want to change that is by us showing ourselves showing different images of ourselves and well I like to show you some of the stuff I've

Africa’s youth culture PIPE...

 and that is in how we tell it; how anthropologists and scientists share that information with each other and with the public. The scientific papers that describe Naledi were released in a open-access journal called eLife. Shortly thereafter, we released all the shape files

How Finding This Human...

 before the agricultural revolution, it's important to understand that human beings lived in hunter-gatherer groups that are characterized wherever they're found in the world by what anthropologists called fierce egalitarianism. They not only share things,

Are we sexual omnivores?...

 mostly and anthropologists archaeologists they study diet people from cemeteries but in this case these people were justtlike so they were living a living population this is very important to understand how they were living the the ealth of these

Pompeii: New Studies...

 We can build on their wisdom. And as a result, our ideas do accumulate, and our technology progresses. And this cumulative cultural adaptation, as anthropologists call this accumulation of ideas, is responsible for everything around you

Mark Pagel: How language...

 and invite them to engage their rare and valuable abilities with the community. Anthropologists tell us that the one thing we as humans have always required of our community members is to be of use, to be able to contribute.

The opportunity of...

 I think future anthropologists will take a look at the books we read on self-help, self-realization, self-esteem. They'll look at the way we talk about morality as being true to oneself,

How we can face the...

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