Charles BriggsThinkers

Anthropology is not a field in which interviewers fish for the 'truth' but one that interprets the subtle intersection that converge to form a particular interview.

Biocommunicability is discursive acts and practices that focus on health and medical issues biocommunicability.

The City is rather than country, 'terra incognita'. There we live in darkness, with doubting hearts and ignorant unnecessary fears.

A Communication blunder is the mistake an ethnographer makes when he attempts to force an interview structure on informants who may have their own cultural ways of communicating information that the interviewer is not aware of.

Ethnographic research is always plagued by the problem of knowing if the responses mean the same thing to interviewee and the interviewer.

Ethnographic research is best first begun by investigating the metacommunicative repertoire of the group in question.

A Field of communicability is the sorts of everyday constructions of the way knowledge is purportedly produced, circulated, and received and the way individuals and institutions participate in this process.

The Interviewer is not simply the medium through which the respondents' attitudes and beliefs are conveyed to the reader. Rather, the interviewer stands as a co-participant in the construction of a discourse.

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A Sanitary citizen is he who possess modern medical understandings of the body (as compared with unsanitary subjects: People judged to be incapable (or refusing) of adopting this modern medical relationship to the body, hygiene, illness, and healing).

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