ethnographer

is a professional stranger, someone who is intentionally an incompetent member of society and to whom stories are told and explained in detail.

The professional stranger is someone who is intentionally an incompetent member of society, and to whom elaborate stories (narrations) are told and explained in detail.'

's studies do not require a writing instrument because he already knows what he will find.

Vine Deloria insightfully states 'You may be curious as to why the anthropologist never carries a writing instrument. He never makes a mark because he ALREADY KNOWS what he is going to find.'

is someone who examines and re-creates moments of natural communication to reveal something general about the phenomena through the modes of 'description, interpretation, and comparison.

someone who examines and re-creates moments of natural communication to reveal something general about the phenomena through the modes of 'description, interpretation, and comparison' and, in appropriate instances, criticism (262) (Susan Hafen in Perspectives on Human-animal Communication: Internatural Communication By Emily Plec 1888)

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