p> This is what ethnographers have traditionally done (with more or less success depending in large measure on the ethnographer's own skill and ability to ôgo nativeö as well as on historical and cultural coincidence and circumstance). And this is precisely what Stack did as well.
And so, given that her work is very much within the mainstream of anthropological and ethnographic tradition, why has All Our Kin become known as such a radical work? The answer is quite simply that Stack was one of the very first ethnographers to take the traditional tools and questions of the discipline and apply them in a comprehensive and deeply intelligent way to a community in the United States. Moreover, she was one of the first anthropologists to use traditional ethnographic methods t
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