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With randomness it is very unlikely to be embarrassed, but even if you get embarrassed, you can't replicate it.

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The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable.

Anxiety, Criticism, Ethnography, Undiscussable, Written
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In anthropology, which historically exists to 'give voice' to others, there is no greater taboo than self-revelation. The impetus of our discipline, with its roots in Western fantasies about barbaric others, has been to focus primarily on 'cultural' rather than 'individual' realities. The irony is that anthropology has always been rooted in an 'I' - understood as having a complex psychology and history - observing a 'we' that, until recently, was viewed as plural, ahistorical, and nonindividuated.

History, Nonindividuated, Reality, Roots, Voice

I have a huge need for financial security; the emigrant in me has a fear of ending up homeless and in the gutter.

Emigrant, Fear, Gutters, Homeless, Huge, Needs

Written with grace and thoroughly researched, One People, One Blood is an ethnography with a lot of heart that also sheds new light on a fascinating and fraught chapter in recent Jewish history.

Blood, Fraught, Heart, Light, People
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