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Q&A: The Anthropology of Ethiopian Distance Running

From our Book Club discussion.

Jan 22, 2024
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This week we’re sharing the condensed Q&A from our Book Club earlier this week with author and anthropologist Michael Crawley. He lived with a team of Ethiopian distance runners for 14 months and studied the culture of distance running there extensively to write the book, ‘Out of Thin Air.’

We talked both about what makes Ethiopian runners so good and w…

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