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Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject. . . . [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner alienation as an urban intellectual.

Source: Quoted in: Neville Dyson-Hudson, Structure and Infrastructure in Primitive Society (published in The Structuralist Controversy, ed. by R. Macksey and E. Donato, 1970).
-- Susan Sontag, (Jan 16 1933-2004), US author, critic; She was one of the most influential contemporary American critics, utilizing new sensibility to evaluate art.

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