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He who only knows his own side knows of the case, knows little of that.~John Stuart Mill I started graduate school in 2006. Like a lot of anthropology departments at the time, Rutgers was split between the biological anthropologists and cultural anthropologists. Although we were all supposedly in the same department and required to take some of the same classes, it was like putting the math and the art departments together—except they hated each other.In anthropology, graduate students have to conduct field research, and the first few years are spent figuring out the topic and where to go. I had…
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