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“Native has direct
access to the meanings of his or her own
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culture,
whereas the scholar, as an outsider, can only infer
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or
speculate about these meanings indirectly. The natives,
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however,
presumably have not read Shutz or any other
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phenomenological
sociologists and therefore do not realize
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that
their own cultural insights are also interpretations, i.e.,
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meaning
they (or other members of the tribe) have created
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after
stopping and thinking. This is to say, at some point in
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time
someone has removed himself, or herself from the
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immediate
flow of events and has creatively for the tribe.
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While
one must always listen respectfully to what natives
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has
to say-after all, it is their story that we are trying to tell-
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their
interpretive structures are not necessarily the one, or
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the
best explanations available (Davis, 7)
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