Statistics is essential to most subfields of anthropology at least at some level. Both graduate programs I've been in required you to take stats classes. Most anthropological work would be basically impossible without at least some statistical knowledge, just to ensure your sample size is valid. Even what we think of as "classic" ethnographic studies use some sort of implicit statistical model, because more anthropologists are not observing every member and every event that happens in that group, but are instead assuming that what they observed from a sample is true for the population as a whole.

The whole point of a lot of current anthropological thinking, at least in m opinion, is to understand that we are "the man", and trying to come up with ways to overcome that or limit its affects to provide more inclusive and complete interpretations.