"Yes, it's only Reservation Blues but I like it:" On the Connection between Christian and Native Religions
One of the most interesting aspects of the anthropological study of Catherine A. Lutz, entitled Unnatural Emotions, is that the author applies the same sort of intense self-examination to her own project as an anthropologist amongst the Ifaluk as she does to the Ifaluk themselves. Every individual at some point in his or her own life has been confronted with the surprise, after all, that someone seems exactly like me.' Or, conversely, one is shocked how another human animal, possessing roughly the same physical attributes of one's genus and species as one's self, could behave in such a horrible/wonderful fashion, totally unlike me.'
Catherine Lutz suggests that these latter moments come, not so often when an individual is the presence of someone he or she regards as wholly alien, but when an individual is in the presence of someone he or she has come to regard as......
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