this essay is about clifford geertz.it is about ethnographic description between emic or experience near.the question explains phonemes and phonetics that this notion of emic comes from.
Along with Clifford Geertz, that the basis of good ethnographic description is “taking” between an emic,or “experience-near” understanding of local concepts, and paired etic,or “experience-distant” term of comparison. Please explain the nature of phonemes and phonetics that this notion of emic/etic comes from.
