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What does it mean to be a 'person'? Different cultures have different answers

  • Written by Robert Launay, Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University
What does it mean to be a 'person'? Different cultures have different answersA 4-month-old baby girl is tended by her grandmother inside a church in Duekoue, Ivory Coast, in 2011. AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell

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