Reading Response to "An Ethnographic Filmflam"

In John L. Jackson Jr.'s essay, An Ethnographic Filmflam, he discusses about how digital video technology during fieldwork opens up empirical and theoretical space for the relationship between anthropologists and the viewers. This article highlights the culture and society in Harlem, which he studies a local tenant activist and follows her around with a camera. He metions using ethnographric fieldwork, which is a genre of anthropology that deals with the scientific description of a specific culture. He says that in order to thoroughly understand life-ways of a specific cultures, it would have to be as though one were looking through the natives' own eyes. I agree because i think you have to study that culture and lifestyle for a long time before truly and completely understand that culture. And when you fully understand, you would feel like you were one of the natives.
"It is this secondary impulse, the move from emic to etic comprehension, which grounds anthropological claims about scientific knowledge production" Studying a culture from being on the outside is totally different from being the inside. When being on the outside you comprehend what you see and judge on what your lifestyle is like. But being on the inside you view it and understand what is going on.