Ordinary Banana

Sure it is. When foreigners intrude on a local told-for-true culture, they easily switch to explaining it in more explicitly symbolic/fictional terms. The suspension of disbelief is shallow and kinda instrumental. Like Huizenga’s play.

so the goal is to become a universal foreigner

like “anthropologist from mars”

Or alternatively universal believer who can become true insider of anything. Like Electric monk https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.urbandictionary.com/define.php%3fterm=Electric%2bmonk&amp=true … “Go believe in Christianity for me”

The Emic Bro

Vs Etic high modernist

I feel like I keep having to be reminded that emic exists even for my own self

I think it kinda doesn’t for anyone born after world war 2. Post modernity kills the Emic experience unless you live under a rock. Hence baudrillard simulation