When anthropologists suspend their own worldview to learn from indigenous informants, they “consistently report extraordinary experiences that are consistent with the ones described by the people they ‘study.’”[212] These experiences also provide bonding with the host culture.[213] Thus some note their experiences of unusually autonomous images[214] and vivid dreams.[215] “Native informants” often feel that observers’ refusal to participate forgoes experience,[216] and conditions of maximal participation have given anthropologists “dreams and visions that reflect their absorption of the local
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