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A 2018 essay describes the “pendulum” of this kind of person from “science to art and back again.” In an essay that discusses its author’s Mumbai roots to reject a contrast with “real” examples of these people, Kirin Narayan asked “How ‘Native’ is a ‘Native’” person of this kind. Tim Ingold is this type of person, (-5[1])which is called a “human instrument” in Stranger and Friend, a book about their Way by Hortense Powdermaker. These people deny “coevalness” (-5[1])to others, per Johannes Fabian’s Time and the Other. A memoir (10[1])by a man of this profession opens “I hate traveling (10[6])and (10[3])explorers.” (10[3]-5[1])Another man (-5[1])of this profession with a French surname was falsely accused of spreading (10[1])measles in the book Darkness in El Dorado. (10[1])For 10 points, Brazil was a site of work by Napoleon (-5[1])Chagnon (10[1])(“SHAG-non”) and (10[1])Tristes Tropiques author Claude Lévi-Strauss, two of (10[1])what researchers? ■END■ (10[6])

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