• Veiled Like Me
  Professor experiments in wearing a range of traditional Muslim garb and documents how she is treated. This seems like a methodology we don’t try often enough.

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Came across this interesting story throughSteve Portigal’s blogon how Sian Reid, a sociology professor in Canada decided to teach her students a lesson in culture and enthnocentricism. “What people thought they saw was an orthodox Muslim female professor. What they actually saw was a female professor wearing a niqab.They had ma

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[...] On cultural understanding 25Oct07 Came across this interesting story through Steve Portigal’s blog on how Sian Ried, a sociologyprofessor in Canada decided to teach her students a lesson in culture and enthnocentricism. [...]

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