Chpt. 1 - part II

This is from the same chapter but I'm having completely separate thoughts. Ethnography is a word my brain is having trouble saying, but we're working on it. But to get to a point, the book presents two ideas that I guess I was always aware of but have never put them into specific terms - naive realism and ethnocentrism. Both are things tht we should attempt to avoid in our ethnographies, if not in daily life. When I read these sections I immediately thought of one day a few years ago when I saw an interview with a rabid young Harry Potter fan. She was supposed to be offering questions for the interviewer to ask the cast of the movies later. I remember that as she stood in front if the camera, clutching her Potter pillowcase, she had absolutely no problem asking with her giddy American dialect, if Dan Radcliffe had an accent, or if he "talked real like us." I'm marking that down as the attitude from which we should probably refrain.