We are all potential anthropologists of our own professional tribes: embedded for years or decades, observing the curious customs of the tribesfolk, absorbing the unwritten rules. Does anyone ever “go native” to the point that they cannot step back and sense the peculiarity of their tribe’s distinctive praxis—as Horace Miner memorably did in “Body Ritua…
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