SC - OT: Anthropology-OOP

[LrdRas@aol.com]

>Gwynydd,
>
>> Another point which I remember reading - although I can't tell you the
>> source - is that sometimes captured native peoples would give the
>> anthropologists (and others) the answer that it seemed they 
>> wanted.  So, Big
>> White Hunter says "which humans taste particularly good" and 
>> Noble Savage -
>> having given up on trying to convince BWH they neither he nor 
>> his tribe are
>> actually cannibals answers - "all people tasty; flesh of old 
>> woman most
>> good."
>
>This problem is well recognised within the cultural Anthropological
>community.  The most infamous case is that of Margaret Mead and the Samoans
>(although that was in regarding to young females being sexually active
>before marriage - not cannibalism). It is one of the reasons that
>anthropologists are now taught witness participation.  Basically as well as
>listening to what the members of the culture are telling you, you must also
>participate and see for your own eyes.  And then record both.  I know in my
>own culture, what my family says about always going to church on Sunday
>doesn't quite gell with the actual fact that mostly they only go once per
>month.

Mel,

Your family goes to church?  I've only been married to you for 4 years and I
never noticed.  Chuckle...

Drake.