A 2018 essay describes the “pendulum” of this kind of person from “science to art and back again.” In an essay that discusses its author’s Mumbai roots to reject a contrast with “real” examples of these people, Kirin Narayan asked “How ‘Native’ is a ‘Native’” person of this kind. Tim Ingold is this type of person, which is called a “human instrument” in Stranger and Friend, a book about their Way by Hortense Powdermaker. These people deny “coevalness” to others, per Johannes Fabian’s Time and the Other. A memoir by a man of this profession opens “I hate traveling and explorers.” Another man of this profession with a French surname was falsely accused of spreading measles in the book Darkness in El Dorado. For 10 points, Brazil was a site of work by Napoleon Chagnon (“SHAG-non”) and Tristes Tropiques author Claude Lévi-Strauss, two of what researchers? ■END■
ANSWER: anthropologists [accept cultural anthropologists; accept “How Native Is a ‘Native’ Anthropologist?”; prompt on ethnographers or participant observers; prompt on researchers; prompt on social scientists; prompt on professors or academics or scholars; prompt on answers indicating people engaged in fieldwork]
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