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Napoleon once exclaimed in a fit of pique with his compatriots. In corsican fragments, matei candea takes the theoretical problematic of difference to motivate a set of ethnographic questions and challenges related to both the context of life in a village on the island and the process of fieldwork and enfielding of the author. Matei candea traces ideas about inclusion and exclusion through these different realms, as corsicans, continentals, tourists, and the anthropologist make. On the one hand, science is an object of anthropological enquiry, in much the same way as kinship, religion, or nationalism.
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