Phantzi Little Yarns

Quotables (Taken Ever So Gently Out of Context)

"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
"What if there were a world called academia, where books were so significant that people would sit for hours on end, away from friends and family, writing them?" - Holland et al, Identity and Agency in Cultural Worlds, p.49.
"I played Snood for two hours because I was supposed to be grading papers" - Prof. Terry
"This is the last class period before…the next class period" - Prof. Terry
"I'm sure you are all, actually, with the hegemonic genre" - Prof. J
"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