I probably have always been an exhibitionist, but I've done… - Deborah James

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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.

Deborah James

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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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