Reaction Paper on the "Krippendorf's Tribe"
1. Approaches and Methods
The quest of the Krippendorf's family for a lost tribe in New Guinea demonstrates the participant observation method of research as James together with his wife Jennifer and their three children, tried living with the observed people, learning how they see things and experience things. Unfortunately, the family's search fails despite their best efforts.
After Jennifer's death, James as a single father has been living off a Proxmire Foundation grant in rearing his dysfunctional children. Word comes that his lecture on the "undiscovered" tribe in New Guinea is due. But he's not ready since there is no tribe. Fearful of being charged with misuse of grant funds, James bluffs his way through a presentation of an imaginary tribe, the Shelmikedmu which was derived from the names of his three children. Conversely, James wasn't aware that a documentation of these unknown natives he claims he's discovered was......
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