I'm taking a stand against the culture of box-ticking.

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Title: I'm taking a stand against the culture of box-ticking.
Authors: David Boyle
Source: Evening Standard. 3/11/2020, p13. 1p.
Abstract: THE American anthropologist Polly Wiessner used to spend a quarter of every year with the !Kung bushmen in southern Africa. When she got home to New York, every time she felt at first a great sense of relief to have escaped the complex networks of reciprocity that bind those tribes — but 48 hours later, she always felt a profound sense of loss. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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Abstract:THE American anthropologist Polly Wiessner used to spend a quarter of every year with the !Kung bushmen in southern Africa. When she got home to New York, every time she felt at first a great sense of relief to have escaped the complex networks of reciprocity that bind those tribes — but 48 hours later, she always felt a profound sense of loss. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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