| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 54683 |
| QUOTATION: | Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner alienation as an urban intellectual. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Susan Sontag (b. 1933), U.S. essayist. Quoted in Neville Dyson-Hudson,”Structure and Infrastructure in Primitive Society,” published in The Structuralist Controversy, eds. R. Macksey and E. Donato (1970). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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