Phantzi Little Yarns: More Book House

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Quotables (Taken Ever So Gently Out of Context)

"Anthropologists think too much and see things that don't exist" - Gabriella Vargas Medina
"All ethnography is fiction" - Sir Edmund Leach
"There is nothing interesting happening in Anthropology today" - Prof H.
"Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think" - fortune cookie
"I played Snood for two hours because I was supposed to be grading papers" - Prof. Terry
"I have a friend who says he got into Anthropology because of the infinite capacity for self-loathing" - Prof. D
"I don't find anybody else on earth problematizing themselves the way anthropologists do" - Professor V