does Reflexivity not belong to an individual or cultural vacuum but to a cross-cultural encounter: it is not the unmediated world of the "others", but the world between ourselves and the others (Tedlock 1983: 323).
Reflective Vs. reflexive
Reflective: thinking about ourselves but without awareness of the implications of our action Reflexive:to be aware of ourselves and aware of our actions
becoming aware of oneself as the producer of the message (communication exchange)
Producer:(ethnographer) process: shaping, encoding of the message product: the text, what the audience recieves
Only if a producer makes awareness of self a public matter and conveys that knowledge to an audience is it possible to regard the product as reflexive (Myerhoff and Ruby, 1982: 6)
Being reflexive is structuring communicative products (ethnographies) so that the audience assumes the producer (the ethnographer), process (the ethnographic fieldwork), and product (ethnography) are a coherent whole.
Reflexivity and cultural phenomena: turn toward subjectivity
Changes in the sciences: Kuhn (the of structure Scientific Revolution, 1962). ---Geerts Blured Genres, 1980 --exegetics; critical interpretation Arts and Social Sciences: autobiographies as an avenue for self-expression(Mead) ---Oscar Lewis (anthrop of Poverty)
Reflexivity and anthropology
to examine a field problem to examine anthropology itself to look at anthropopology as a tool for gathering data to publicly examine the anthopologist's response to the field situation
The paradox/dillema within anthropology
the more the anthrop attempts to fulfill his scientific obligation to report on methods, the more he must acknowledge his own behaviour and the persona as a data Stat...