subjectivity has in turn resulted in cultural biases in the interpretation of field data. In recent years, as a response to this problem, third world anthropologists have called for the development of a native anthropology, in which members from traditional anthropological study populations would begin to study themselves as a means of correcting the ethnographic record. But in today's small, pluralistic and cosmopolitan world, a relevant question is: who truly represents such membership? Is it possible for an ethnographer to only belong to the same cultural area, as his study population, or must he be a member of the same nation?