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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Uh you've probably noticed and I'm sure members of the audience have noticed that that
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the job of being a folklorist and (I wouldn't call it a vocation) uh involves paying attention to what people do, observing culture and looking for patterns of of continuity and looking for traditions which have extended within communities over generations and so forth.

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And while it's interesting work, one of the drawbacks is that you don't really get to be off the job. Uh,
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if I go to the beach with my daughter in the summertime, I find myself thinking about the way that people organize themselves and on the beach and how far strangers need to be apart from each other in order where they set their boundaries of personal space.

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And so, after a while, I just give up and go home.[[laughter]]
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I wonder with with all three of your interests in style as well as your skills, again setting the specific skills involved in braiding aside for the moment, whether you suffer from some of the same maladies, whether you remain interested in style and fashion uh
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or whether, you know, you've, whether those interests go beyond what you do in your shop, whether you leave them when you, when you lock the door and go home or whether those interests carry over into everyday life as you're walking around, just observing people.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Yeah.
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Whether you're sort of--
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
Yes, it does.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
--Whether those observations of other people really govern, whether that feeds into the ideas for what you do with your work as well? As far--[[cross-talk]]

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Yes, 'cause you're always seeing braids, and looking at styles and preparing and stuff like that.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
That's been one of the interesting things at the festival as people in the crowd walk by, we've seen a number of different um braids and we've had them come in the tent and one day a woman from Nigeria came who had a technique that I hadn't seen before. And--

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 4"}
Have you seen it before?
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
No.
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
I saw it in there.
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
Not the color.
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
I saw it in there.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
And and, so we talked to her a little bit about what she was doing and it was kind of exciting.