Reading 8/4

This weeks reading was really interesting to me. I liked that I brought up ethics. I am taking an ethics class this quarter and it is really interesting to me. Enthographic narratives are really interesting to me. I feel like without them we would never really be able to know what people in the past are thinking. I’m really interested in anthropology and history. It allows us to see what people from all sides are thinking. My goal is to become a criminal profiler and reading journals or dairies of like Nazis or killers always fascinate me.  I like the idea of studying Nazi journals and learning the emotion struggles and ethical struggles some of them must have had. At what point did they start villianizing and detaching from Jewish people to commit these crimes. I like to know how long it takes people to start using defense mechanisms to commit crimes. I like how the Kahn readings really talked about turning journals into a scientific observation! I really like the steps they explained in going over journal studying. I think it raises a lot of ethical questions especially when the writers are deceased. I love that it’s a way of learning from other people’s experiences. I feel like I already did some of this in my compare and contrast essay. I focused on times in history so this idea makes sense to me.  I think using enthographs to reflect and learn from others and our mistakes is a really smart way to use them to impact our lives!  I hated Kawulich reading! I understood it because it was very similar to the other reading however it was written worse. It was difficult to keep my focus!! It wasn’t as easy to read and the format was not very reader friendly! It had a lot more information I think but it was so poorly written that it was hard for me to connect to like the Kahn reading.