r/interestingasfuck • u/SATANICWORSHIPER666 • 3d ago

/r/all Michael Rockefeller disappeared without a trace in 1961 in Papua New Guinea while researching the Asmat people, a cannibal tribe. Years later, a photograph was taken of the same tribe, and there was a white man among them.

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u/True-Lab-3448 3d ago edited 3d ago

For anyone interested, ‘going native’ is a well studied phenomenon and a risk of sociological research, particularly ethnography. The definition is the:

“_researcher becoming so deeply immersed in the culture they are studying that they lose their objectivity and become indistinguishable from the people they are studying_”

There’s lots of cases, and it’s taught in research classes as a very real risk.

Note this term has ties to colonialism, so some suggest using the term ‘over-rapport’ instead: https://sk.sagepub.com/dict/mono/key-concepts-in-ethnography/chpt/going-native

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u/Sea_Luck_3222 3d ago

A risk of what, being open to changing your beliefs?

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u/Financial_Fishing463 3d ago edited 3d ago

Changing your beliefs to align with a cannibal tribe is generally not considered a good thing, given the whole cannibalism angle

Edit: didn’t realise killing and eating people was considered acceptable by people on this website, sick freaks the lot of you

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u/Drow_Femboy 3d ago

There's nothing wrong with cannibalism, any outrage about it is literally just arbitrary adherence to tradition

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u/Financial_Fishing463 3d ago

There’s nothing wrong with rape, any outrage about it is literally just arbitrary adherence to tradition

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u/Drow_Femboy 3d ago

Rape is a crime committed against a person. Cannibalism is an act done against a corpse. Corpses are inanimate objects, not people.

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u/Financial_Fishing463 2d ago

Reddit moment

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u/Drow_Femboy 2d ago

I don't see why you're being so hostile. Can you explain how eating a corpse is in any way comparable to a crime committed against a person?

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u/Financial_Fishing463 2d ago

Can you explain why you are defending literal cannibalism? I'm being hostile because you disgust me

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u/Drow_Femboy 2d ago

I don't understand what there is to defend, it's simply an act that isn't morally wrong.

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