Re: SIL (was: A project)
| From: | Boudewijn Rempt <boud@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 16, 2001, 7:21 |
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On Saturday 15 September 2001 20:19, Marcus wrote:
> But even apart from the Christianity issue, SIL workers bring their own
> cultures with them. Sometimes in an honest attempt to be friendly and
> helpful, they introduce things and ideas that are harmful to the local
> culture.
Every fieldworker does that, by merely arriving in a village
and being their for half a year - it doesn't matter whether
he's even more sympathetic to the local culture than the village
elders, he'd still cause changes. After all, he's rich, learned,
knows the authorities, and again, rich.
The ethics of fieldwork are a complicated subject - when I was at
University it was a separate, required course.
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Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org