The Students who go out into the anthropological field have that deal with the different environment and get accustom to what the native people do. There were two destinations that the students were able to go. One was the rural part of Barbados and the other is more urban called Hobart. Either place there is a difference to how the natives were being interviewed.
The students that lived in the village have found out more that differs themselves from the natives. The natives were more closed off from the rest of the student as Gmelch describes,
Compared warmth and friendliness, and frequent sharing of food and other resources in a village with the impersonality, individualism, and detachment of life the suburb or city in which they grew up. (Gmelch 85)
Eventually the natives in the village were aware of the students and eventually remembered their names.
In the suburban places there are many people there and so the chances of getting to know the people was little. It requires the student to make an interview with questions ready if they want to know something from the people. As Gmelch said, “ Heavy reliance on formal interviews by students in the city means they do not often see their subjects in natural social settings” (Gmelch 89). With having an interview, the information gained might not entirely be the truth.
I believed that when the students were in the village they were gaining more access to how the people lived. There was no need of an interview since the students was examining how the people were living each day. There is a benefit to researching in a small and disclosed area; there will never be something that can distract their daily lives. Unlike the rural parts the suburb is busier, there are things to be done and not enough time to spare. I believe that the rural area gives us a better understanding to what their culture and customs all about.
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