Different cultures represent different lives, different human possibilities that are not available everywhere.

Among them is the ongoing opportunity to observe people and the cultures they inhabit from their perspectives, and to try to answer questions like: How do groups of people form? What are their core beliefs? What do they aspire to, and why? How do they create social ties? How does one culture differ from another? Do any of these local beliefs,

I must have thought something was really important if it warranted saving. If you put all of my memorabilia and artifacts together, you would get the most accurate story of who I was and what I valued at any one point in my life. And you’d probably need no more than a standard issue dining room table to lay it out.

nuanced ecologies of being and identity.