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It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.

Clifford Geertz
Oddities, People, May
Clifford Geertz (1973). “The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays”, p.43, Basic Books
It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.