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艾伦·麦克法兰（AlanMacFarlane）教授， 剑桥大学https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/alan_macfarlane...

Part of that came from his mother, an anthropologist, that notion of being a participant observer. part of it came from his own sensibility, thinking of himself as a writer and we writers also have that observer rather than participant sensibility. all of that helps explain what some people see as a coolness or a veil, which one of his girlfriends in my book described the veil behind barack obama. >> what about a sense of abandonment, if any, given his relationship with his mother and how she re...

See from where it all came? was it as a result of her upbringing or was it something purely from within? >> i think both. she must be some kind of inate temperame temperament. she grew up moving constantly. in the first 13 years of her life, she moved six or seven times. she was a bit of a nonconformist. many of those things carry through and she becomes an anthropologist where the ethic is the participant observer, exactly the role shed taken in her high school. >> can you point to something th...