native anthropology

is a vantage gained away from her native surroundings where she could finally see herself like someone else and stand off and look at herself, aided by the spy-glass of anthropology.

I was glad when somebody told me, you may go and collect Negro folklore.' [n a way it would not be a new experience for me. When I pitched headforemost into the world r landed in the crib of negroism. From the earliest rocking of my cradle, I had known about the capers Brer Rabbit is apt to cut and what the Squinch Owl says from the house top. But it was fitting me like a tight chemise. I couldn't see it for wearing it. It was only when I was off in college, away from my native surroundings, that I could see myself like someone else and stand off and look at my garment. Then I had to have the spy-glass of Anthropology to look through at that (MM I).

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native anthropology