Eating Christmas In The Kalahari Analysis

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Ethnographic fieldwork in Anthropology certainly requires anthropologies to understand the limits and biases they will be exposed to while preforming their research. Through the text “Ethnography and Culture”, James P. Spradley discusses some of the concepts anthropologies must be aware of just as “naive realism”, “explicit culture” and “tacit culture”. These three concepts can be appreciated when reading Richard B. Lee’s selection “Eating Christmas in the Kalahari”. Spradley describes “naïve realism” as the belief that all people define the real world in the same ways. For instance, when Lee was looking for the best animal for Christmas dinner he was looking for a huge mass up animal. He believed that his concept of a good animal to eat

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