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South African anthropologist and academic

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Deborah James, FBA (born 1954) is a South African anthropologist and academic, who specialises in South Africa, economic anthropology, political anthropology, and ethnography.Since 2008, she has been Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics in England.

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So if I look in the mirror and I look like crap, I feel like crap, then if I suddenly put a face on, I suddenly feel a little bit better, and I think it's part of my coping strategy.

It's so funny isn't it, when you suddenly have something to write about you find your voice, and it's amazing the opportunities. I'm petrified of flying, but I actually flew a plane myself.

I was given this lifeline of targeted therapy and it put my cancer to sleep, but what people don't get about it is that on average people get about six months extra life and I got two and a half years.

I probably have always been an exhibitionist, but I've done things that I never thought I could do, and it is because of cancer. I'm dyslexic and I've just written a book. I'm not saying dyslexia stops you, but I never thought I was a writer.