"When I came to Harvard Law School from Ethiopia, I never thought that I would find someone with first-hand knowledge of life in a village of East Africa. Our first conversations were like conversations with someone who had left my village a little earlier than me and just needed a little updating on how things have stood since then."
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Sally Falk Moore
(January 18, 1924 – May 2, 2021) was a legal anthropologist and professor emerita at Harvard University.
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