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August 12, 2009
An anthropologist as the President’s mother
The New York Times has an interesting piece about the work of anthropologist Ann Dunham Soetoro, most famous for being the mother of President Barack Obama.The article is by Yale anthropologist Michael Dove who knew and worked with Obama's mother before she died in 1995.Dr. Soetoro's most sustained academic effort was her 1,043-page dissertation, "Peasant Blacksmithing in Indonesia: Surviving Aga
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