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In order to understand a culture distant in time and/or place, we must first leave behind (but not forget) our own carefully constructed models of reality, or, as José Gil (1998, ix) put it,
to understand oneself experiencing — and grasping in theoretical images — the circuits of intensity that emerge as one leaves, via a kind of methodological breakout, the domain mapped out by our signs.
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Järvinen, H. (2014). An Audience for Ballet. In: Dancing Genius. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137407733_2
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