Make up response: Ethnographies as Texts (Marcus and Cushman)

I believe what Cushman and Marcus meant by ". Ethnographies have been punctuated with explicit us-them differences, in which the "us" is monolithically referred to as the West... and is contrasted to the 'them', which is the specific village, group or culture as subject of the ethnography"(p. 49). Experimental ethnographies have shifted to a "me-them" form of contrast” is that we should constantly challenge this monolithic world view, the narrative text exists as a critique of the very foundation of contemporary civilization—the objectification of self and other and in many cases the redundancy and destructive usage of the West versus East dichotomy, which is a result based upon a monolithic view of human existence. The challenge to this objectification created by narrative ethnography opens the possibility that we can develop a dialogic language of ethnography which allows us to confront the flux and ambiguity of existence. By doing so human colleagues can create themselves from something NOT inside or outside them, but rather BETWEEN them. It is precisely the between that fosters the dialogue that is needed to remind us that we are all in fact human with stories story to tell and share (sharing in my opinion is an offshoot/and extension of the between). Narrative ethnography meets this demand by placing at our fingertips the possibility of both reflexively understanding the story of the self and other as well as developing the language to authentically represent that story.