Ethnographers Quotes & Sayings

I'm a little frightened, perhaps. We always are, aren't we? When we have to open a door that's always been there...but we've never opened. [...] I mean frightened by the immensity of what lies beyond the door. A God of Love--infinite and eternal. How could I ever be worthy of that? — Tony Hendra

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. — Norman Cousins

I specialise in taking teams of designers, psychologists, usability experts, sociologists and ethnographers into the field. It's called 'corporate anthropology,' but personally I'm more comfortable with 'design research,' because I'm not an anthropologist by training. — Jan Chipchase

Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders. — Martha Gellhorn

In the mid-nineteenth century, Jeremiah Curtin, an Irish-American who had learned Irish, traveled throughout the Irish-speaking enclaves in Connacht and discovered hundreds of previously unrecorded stories. He recorded them in their original language and greatly advanced the study of Irish folklore. At — Ryan Hackney

Wherever I am, you belong. You're mine. Say it. — J. Kenner

When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh? — Max Frisch

and for the first time began to understand the desperate game that we play in life; and how a thing once done is not to be changed or remedied, by any penitence. But — Robert Louis Stevenson

Reference to the deadness of the past is a way of staking a claim on it. But historians must be open, as ethnographers try to be, to the shock of the unpredictability and difference of the past, which means open to the possibility of the past living in its insistence on telling its own story and so confounding us. Only in this way can the past teach us something new about ourselves, about the limits of our imaginings and ways of knowing, and even of our particular and distinctive ways of being human. — Robert A. Orsi

Numerous animals have lost their lives at my hands, but only one human. I hear Gale saying, How different can it be, really? — Suzanne Collins

Hunter-gatherer women are therefore not normally treated badly, and many ethnographers have concluded that, in comparison to most societies, married women lead lives of high status and considerable autonomy. — Richard W. Wrangham

It would be better alone, anything is better alone but I don't think I can handle it alone. — Ernest Hemingway,

The worst part is watching someone you love love someone else — Sheena Hutchinson

Anywhere you hang yourself is home. — Henry Rollins

I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform. — Emanuel Ax