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SUMMARY:Uncertain journeying: an anthropologist not quite at home - Marily
 n Strathern
DTSTART:20140131T110000Z
DTEND:20140131T130000Z
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DESCRIPTION:No pre-circulated paper\, but Marilyn has offered the followin
 g by way of orientation:\n\nTwenty years ago I made what from many points 
 of view would seem a rather trivial discovery about English language usage
 .   However since it concerned a concept that is a central item in the soc
 ial anthropologist’s toolkit\, and touched on an area of social life tha
 t anthropology has made very much its own\, I thought there might be some 
 mileage in investigating further\, as I did briefly at the time.  Ten year
 s later\, I turned to it again\, and more or less put it (‘the discovery
 ’) to bed.  But it won’t lie down\, or leave me alone\, and here I am 
 in 2014 worrying at it again.  In between whiles I have constantly told my
 self that I lack the disciplinary skills -- historical\, linguistic\, phil
 osophical\, for a start – to do anything serious with the topic.  I woul
 d like to invite you momentarily on this uncertain journey\, not really kn
 owing whether there is anything worth pursuing here\, only knowing that mi
 nimally it would have to be worthwhile anthropologically speaking!\n
LOCATION:Piers Vitebsky's office\, Scott Polar Research Institute\, Cambri
 dge
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