“Anthropologie”

March 31, 2016

“[Anthropologists] are the most prominent members of the scholarly community that infests the land of the free, and, in the summer time, the homes of the braves. While their historical precedent is uncertain, anthropologists can readily be identified on reservations. Go into any crowd of people. Pick out a tall, gaunt white man wearing Bermuda shorts, a World War II Army Air Force flying jacket, an Australian bush hat, tennis shoes, and packing a large knapsack incorrectly strapped to his back. He will invariably have a thin, sexy wife, an IQ of 191, and a vocabulary in which even the prepositions have 11 syllables. This creature is an anthropologist.” – Lakota writer and scholar, Vine Deloria, Jr., quoted in “Women and Power in Native North America”

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