If you’re an anthropologist and you want to understand an alien culture, the place to be is in ââ?¬Å?the field,ââ?¬Â as they say. Which is how Cathy Small, a fiftysomething professor at a large public university, found herself three years ago this month hauling a laptop, a TV and other must-haves to the dorm, standing alongside hall-mates in a shower line and scrambling to find classrooms on the campus where she has taught for more than 15 years.
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