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       Well why does an ethnographer have to use fieldnotes as a means of documenting their conscience?  Especially since they cause so many issues.  One must have been an outsider in the first before undertaking a project, so is it necessary to fight becoming attached?  It seems like there is no hope when one feels isolated when taking notes, but feels attached when analyzing.  Why does the final piece have to be a form of ‘betrayal’?  If one is honest then there should not be any harm.  Is it that one supposedly divorces his or herself to write impartially?  Regardless of these codes and other entities, Susan Sontag speaks about photographers being removed from the present, or the essence of social relationships.  She also declares that Annie Leibovitz became invisible even when taking family candid photographs.  I refer to photography because it seems like there are parallels between the conflicts of an ethnographer and his or her subjective culture and a photographer and those being photographed.   Due to these similarities, I wonder if photographs can replace fieldnotes if an ethnographer might better understand photographs than codes.  Perhaps someone who communicates visually or from the heart, opposed to one who has a more active left-brain.  Simply, these are questions that appeared during my reading of the excerpt.  After all, anthropology and ethnography have evolved over the years so there should be more room to experiment.