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Literary Ethnography

The culture of a people is an ensemble of texts, themselves ensembles, which the anthropologist strains to read over the shoulders of those to whom they properly belong.

Clifford Geertz, from “Deep Play” in 1973

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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

W.H. Auden (1907-1973)

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