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13 Things 2008
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World
Brown University
Box 1837 / 60 George Street
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: (401) 863-3188
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Despite a healthy degree of cultural relativism, I retain an instinctual sense of the normality of my own culture's practices.
To some degree, this is instinct is a positive thing: without this sense, I might feel out of place, a stranger in my own land, as it were. It is an instinct developed by group awareness and conformity and socialization and simple habit.
This much seems obvious, yet even as I embarked on this project with a desire to boldly explore practices beyond my own, the very questions with which I framed that exploration were built on my point of embarkation.