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'No nation - even if it is our bitterest enemy - is incomprehensible. Anthropology shows that people who seem very different from us behave according to systems of logic, and that these systems can be grasped if we approach them with the sort of patience and respect that Dr. Soetoro practiced in her work.
The anthropologist Clifford Geertz wrote that “the aim of anthropology is the enlargement of the universe of human discourse.”'
Michael R. Dove on Obama's mother, NYTimes
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/11/opinion/11dove.html?_r=2&ref=opinion
The anthropologist Clifford Geertz wrote that “the aim of anthropology is the enlargement of the universe of human discourse.”'
Michael R. Dove on Obama's mother, NYTimes
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/11/opinion/11dove.html?_r=2&ref=opinion