Back when I was preparing for university interviews, one of my teachers offered to help me by preparing a few questions and videoing a practice run. Nice one, thought I. In fact, it was both an embarrassing and an amusing experience, mainly around the point when the afore-mentioned teacher asked: "If you were a participant-observer in a strange culture, and were asked to attend a female circumcision ritual as an honoured guest, how would you respond?

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