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From "Be Naked as Often as Possible," (pdf) anthropologist Genevieve Bell's commencement address to the graduates of UC Berkeley's School of Information:
And last but not least, in my anthropological advice giving, I urge you to be honest and brave. For anthropologists this means staying true to the stories we were told in the field, and keeping the details and nuances however inconvenient and contradictory they might be. It also means telling those stories in a way that is open and accessible. I remind my students and my employees that they have a responsibility to get it right -- that when someone shares the details of their lives with you -- you have a duty of care to do the right thing with that information.
We do have a responsibility to get it right, but damn if that isn't the hardest thing in the world to do, no matter if you're an anthropologist, journalist, White House Press Secretary... (via danah boyd)
May. 29, '08
anthropology
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