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October 20, 2003

anthropologists

"What anthropologists state is either completely obvious or utterly wrong" - Professor Grayburn in my History of Anthropological Thought class.

Of course, this statement has much more poignance than its first read. I fundamentally believe that the most powerful research is stating what might appears obvious, but only after it was said... tying together threads that no one thought to tie together before.

Category: academia

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Posted by zephoria at October 20, 2003 11:50 PM | TrackBack

Comments (2)

Jordan:

I would agree with that, except for a good anthropologist (or at least a good ethnographer!) wouldn't state much as absolute truth. To paraphrase my ethnography professor "ethnography is my impression of their impression," So: good ethnography isn't coming from an objective place and since it's documenting the subjective experience it is fully "true"

Posted by Jordan | October 22, 2003 9:47 AM

Posted on October 22, 2003 09:47