Quotes About Ethnography

#1. Finding Mecca in America weaves social theory and concrete ethnography into a significant contribution on Muslims in the United States, illuminating broader questions about the integration of minority and immigrant groups along the way. This is an important work and a joy to read.

Eboo Patel

#2. If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first task of life is to live. Men begin with acts, not with thoughts.

William Graham Sumner

#3. As has often been said, if you want to understand what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do. Above all else, what anthropologists do is ethnography.

John Monaghan

#4. I do feel a kinship with anthropology or ethnography, although when you hear those terms you think of something exotic. Generally, photographic anthropology has that taste of the faraway or undiscovered place. But my anthropology has more to do with what's in my reach.

Ari Marcopoulos

#5. Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should.

Clifford Geertz

#6. Ethnography, will necessarily reflect the many implicit and subjective assumptions of its writer, assumptions that the writer acquires from members of his or her own society.

Anonymous

#7. Written with grace and thoroughly researched, One People, One Blood is an ethnography with a lot of heart that also sheds new light on a fascinating and fraught chapter in recent Jewish history.

Ruth Behar

#8. Social media is less about technology and more about anthropology, sociology, and ethnography.

Brian Solis

#9. Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people.' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs, and behavior - based on information collected through fieldwork.

Marvin Harris

#10. We hope that general readers with an interest in Japan will find in these accounts of fieldwork a wide spectrum of illustrations of the grassroots realities of everyday life in contemporary Japanese communities, companies, institutions, and social movements.

Theodore C. Bestor

#11. The second corruption of the state is oligarchy (oligos = few), in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few ruling families of immense wealth and prestige, who now openly flaunt their wealth and possessions.

Robert Payne

#12. I want to make it official, i want to make it forever

Emily Giffin

#13. Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration.

Baltasar Gracian

#14. Luka had a kind smile and the most beautiful dark-brown eyes. But it was Luka's upper left Iris smudged with a small splash of blue that made our mothers think we were destined to be. Mama said God placed a piece of my eye within his so we would always know we shared one soul.

Tillie Cole

#15. You foreigners," he said. "You come to China and complain about the
pollution, but I don't know why." He then gestured at the blurred
landscape around us. "To me, this place smells like money.

Paul Midler

#16. Don't hate yourselves because you will regret in the future. Your souls may be valuable in society.

Saaif Alam

#17. In order for ethnology to live, its object must die; by dying, the object takes its revenge for being 'discovered' and with its death defies the science that wants to grasp it.

Jean Baudrillard

#18. He who eats in idleness that which he himself has not earned, steals it; and a capitalist whom the state pays for doing nothing differs little in my eyes from a brigand, who lives at the expense of passers-by.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#19. I guess I can't blame him for feeling bitter. Going from being the terror of Bulgarian nights to a janitor would kinda suck

Kiersten White

#20. Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.

Benjamin Franklin

#21. Always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and simplicity enough to believe; that you may acquire more and more confidence in that which is difficult, and in your solitude among others.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#22. So government acts as a safeguard of our property.

William Weld

#23. ...tales in search of an excuse for their telling.

John Van Maanen

#24. Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.

Ted Rall

#25. Everyone likes ice cream," he said, white with rage. The mask of patience was slipping, and I don't know how I managed to hold back my tears. "Everyone except you, son, because you're a moron.

Cesar Aira

#26. The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable.

Ruth Behar