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_r0fz on May 8, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ursula Le Guin Books

Yeah that's a big part of her thing right. She was raised by anthropologists I think? It's very present in a lot of her books and Always Coming Home is like 1/3 straight fictional ethnography.

vidarh on May 8, 2021 [–]

Both her parents were anthropologists. This is her father [1], and this was her mother [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._L._Kroeber

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodora_Kroeber

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