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Ethnography is good for answering how and why; it is not meant to answer how many.
Jennifer Visocky O'Grady • A Designer's Research Manual: Succeed in Design by Knowing Your Clients and What They Really Need (Design Field Guide)
To be sure, Hawaiian men were also recruited for military combat;
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
Languages change and evolve organically. But it is perhaps paradoxically necessarily that languages must remain mostly unchanging — mostly common between their speakers — such that change can be recognized and contextualized, rather than simply disorienting.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
When or how do new kinship systems mime older
Maggie Nelson • The Argonauts
language of power – of social power; I shall call it the father tongue.
Ursula K. Le Guin • Dreams Must Explain Themselves: The Selected Non-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin
If the songs are not sung, the stories not told, the knowledge not repeated, then valuable information may be lost.