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Girlhood, Grief, and the Women of anthropology

When the four actresses of anthropology gather around the table, the first thing you notice isn’t performance energy or the careful politeness that sometimes accompanies interviews. It’s familiarity. The conversation flows with the loose rhythm of friends who are comfortable interrupting one another, circling back to earlier jokes, and letting silence sit for a moment before someone breaks it with another story. Even before the interview properly begins, their personalities announce themselves. Jenny Jamora has the air of someone who’s always thinking two steps ahead of the conversation. She speaks with deliberation, the way people do when they’re used to considering both the emotional and intellectual weight of what they’re saying. There’s an intelligence to her presence that doesn’t feel intimidating so much as grounded, as though she’s already mapping the ideas behind the play while everyone else is still finishing their coffee. Right beside her sits Maronne Cruz, who…
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