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I repeatedly accompanied my anthropologist parents and older sister to Deh Koh, a mud village in Iran, in the time of the shah as well as in postrevolutionary times. The sites where I grew up thus shifted between the German-speaking Austria of my grandparents and of my own earliest years, the Luri-speaking village of my parents' anthropological field work-where the unreflected purpose in life for my sister and me was to be Lurs-and the United States, where I and my family now reside. Having disconcertingly come to the recognition in my teens that I was more "other" than the Lur I had considered myself to be as a small child as well as neither Austrian nor American but a bit of "other" everywhere, I now regard myself as trilingual and believe that this "not belonging anywhere" may even be the source of security that enabled me to make the decision not to belong to one discipline exclusively but, rather, to become a biprofessional in medicine and anthropology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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