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In this ethnography, I report a shopping experience in Florence, Italy, and use it as an exemplar of cultural syncretism. Although I use poetic devices (such as alliteration, repetition, and assonance) to usher the reader into the experience, the experience happened as I have written it.
Title: New Balance
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In this ethnography, I report a shopping experience in Florence, Italy, and use it as an exemplar of cultural syncretism.
Although I use poetic devices (such as alliteration, repetition, and assonance) to usher the reader into the experience, the experience happened as I have written it.
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