Clifford Geertz - Local Knowledge (1983)

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To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.

Clifford Geertz

In the country of the blind, who are not as unobservant as they look, the one-eyed is not king, he is spectator.

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