I have argued, following Clifford Geertz, that the basis of good ethnographic description is "tacking" between an emic, or "experience-near" understanding of local concepts, and paired etic, or "experience-distant" terms of comparison

Sociology Nov 15, 2021

I have argued, following Clifford Geertz, that the basis of good ethnographic

description is "tacking" between an emic, or "experience-near" understanding of local concepts, and paired etic, or "experience-distant" terms of comparison. Explain the nature of the linguistic concepts of phonemes and phonetics that this notion of emic/etic comes from,