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   * Example: Mari, a friend of John Layard, who had recently returned from plantation work.   * Example: Mari, a friend of John Layard, who had recently returned from plantation work.
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 +===== The fieldworker is a double being =====
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 +Lots of people collect qualitative observations and use interviews as methods, but anthropologists are different because their position is always dual. 
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 +* An ethnographic researcher is a fieldworker who observes and an "adopted" member of a community. 
 +* Ethnographic fieldworkers have a research question they seek to answer, but they also give up a certain degree of control over what they do and how they do it when they immerse themselves in a community as a field. 
 +* Ethnographic fieldworkers are observers of people but they are also students, and social and intellectual inferiors, of those same people they observe. 
  
 ===== The ethics of research on human subjects ===== ===== The ethics of research on human subjects =====
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