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Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...it renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it dissolves their opacity.
-Clifford Geertz
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Understanding A People's Culture Exposes Their Normalness

Clifford Geertz
Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...it renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it dissolves their opacity.
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