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Jiang's description of Shakespeare as first and foremost an observer of how people think and behave.
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Shakespeare as anthropologist
Jiang begins with Gay Talese the master reporter and ends with Gay Talese the man who learns to stare back at shame.
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Jiang begins with Gay Talese the master reporter and ends with Gay Talese the man who learns to stare back at shame.
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"...makes Shakespeare so great he's he is first and foremost an anthropologist a psychologist of people he wants to understand how people think and..."
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"...Okay? He will masturbate with other men, but he is an anthropologist. He is trying to understand the complexity of humans and to do..."
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"...ultimately left Egypt bankrupt. Okay? This is Eric Klein. He's an anthropologist at the University of Washington. He wrote a book called 1177. Okay?..."
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"...could not be paid off. Okay? So, David Grabber, who's an anthropologist, he wrote about this in his book, Debt. Why do we create..."
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"...Okay? So, this is Maria Gumbutas, who is an American Lutheranian anthropologist. And she's the first to hypothesize that old Europe must have been..."
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"...the Wheel, and Language written by David Anthony, who's a Harvard anthropologist. And he explains to us the Inaya culture and why they were..."
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"...everything uh by david grabber and david wengro who are both anthropologists okay and they've looked at different societies and what they emphasize is..."
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"believes and what most actually anthropologists believe is to be human is to ask these three questions. Where do we come from? Why are..."
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"...so last class, we talked about Maria Kumbotas, who is an anthropologist, and she makes the argument that for the longest time, for most..."
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"...really, the height of this civilization. And this is what the anthropologist Maria Gimbertas called Old Europe, okay? So to begin the story, I..."
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"...of what we know about Europe comes from a very famous anthropologist her name is Maria Gombatis okay and we'll be spending a lot..."
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"...conquest of the Yanaya. So, again, Maria Gumbutas, who is an anthropologist, originally from Lutherania, but who worked at Harvard and UCLA, she's done..."
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