used a beach-island metaphor where the "observer" reaches the island of the "observed" and as he ... more used a beach-island metaphor where the "observer" reaches the island of the "observed" and as he put it "he does not see the islander's colors or trees of the mountains. He sees his." (Cited in the introduction to Stuart B. Schwartz, Implicit Understanding: Observing, Reporting, and Reflecting on the Encounters between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern Era, ed. by Stuart B. Schwartz (New York: Cambridge University Press: c1994), 2.) The observer can never comprehend the observed culture completely, as this border is not permeable; the phenomena he/she experiences in the alien culture have to be translated in order to be understoodif it is possible.
used a beach-island metaphor where the "observer" reaches the island of the "observed" and as he ... more used a beach-island metaphor where the "observer" reaches the island of the "observed" and as he put it "he does not see the islander's colors or trees of the mountains. He sees his." (Cited in the introduction to Stuart B. Schwartz, Implicit Understanding: Observing, Reporting, and Reflecting on the Encounters between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern Era, ed. by Stuart B. Schwartz (New York: Cambridge University Press: c1994), 2.) The observer can never comprehend the observed culture completely, as this border is not permeable; the phenomena he/she experiences in the alien culture have to be translated in order to be understoodif it is possible.
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