Emics and Etics: The Insider/Outsider Debate

An "invited Session" symposium of the American Anthropological Association which took place at the Association's 87th Annual Meeting on November 19, 1988. The session was initiated, organized and chaired by Thomas N. Headland and based on Headland's proposal to Marvin Harris and Kenneth Lee Pike that they meet publicly to discuss their respective uses of emics and ETICS and to discuss the seeming discrepancies between their interpretations of the emic/etic concept.

The results of this session were collected for a book edited by Thomas N. Headland, Kenneth L. Pike and Marvin Harris, called "Emics and Etics: The Insider/Outsider Debate" published by Sage Publications in the Frontiers of Anthropology volume 7 in 1990.

Emics and Etics: The Insider/Outsider Debate by Thomas N. Headland