Michael HerzfeldThinkers

Anthropos is the ethical and reasoning being that was conjured up by enlightenment europeans.

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Cultural intimacy is that aspect of cultural identity that is considered a source of external embarrassment but that nevertheless provides insiders with their assurance of common sociality.

Cultural secrecy must be performed in public for outsiders in order for its presence to carry any social weight.

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Ethnography is not capable of the bare precision that official and scientistic discourses offer. Nor should it be. Rather it should aim to be something richer, as so much of social life is far too intimate to be reduced to palpability.

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