“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.
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”
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