#Recognition (and the Seeming Difficulty Thereof) in ASOIAF ampamp;nbsp; When we first read ASOIAF, most of us understandably (and probably unavoidably) consider issue of identity and recognition in light of our unconscious cultural understanding thereof. This understanding, which seems "natural" and "just so", is necessarily conditioned by the socio-historical reality in which we live: our understanding of life is inextricable from a world saturated in accurate, easily reproducible, transpo..