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  • If it were possible adequately to present the whole of a culture, stressing every aspect exactly as appears in the culture itself, no single detail would appear bizarre or strange or arbitrary to the reader, but rather the details would all appear natural and reasonable as they do to the natives who have lived all their lives within the culture.

    "Naven: A Survey of the Problems Suggested by a Composite Picture". Book by Gregory Bateson, 1936.