Lately as my studies have progressed I've been able to formalise some of the anthropological ideas that have been swirling around in my head for the last 24 years.
One that I'm batting around is an outsider concept that I think is ripe for thesis material. It has to do with the idea that being aware of cultural systems and processes means that a person is precluded from ever really participating in them.
This essentially (and obviously) is informed by personal experience, but the more I delve into it, and talk to people the more I'm convinced that there is a body of people that genuinely live outside most cultural norms - because they have no option. Its not like the normal concept of 'outsiders' where people are misfits and rebel in socially unacceptable ways. This is more about the people that are a lot more quiet and are intensely interested in people but can't ever really 'be' one of the people they are so interested in.
Hells yeah I'm gonna be a doctor ;)
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