Dr  Lopez: As anthropologists, we are committed to learning about cultures without intervening in the lives of the people in those cultures  For this reason, we should observe people passively by means of on-site video and sound recordings, rather than conducting interviews with those people  Dr  Tseung: Whereas your aim is admirable, your method is completely misguided
After all, the mere presence of video cameras and recording devices invariably constitutes an intervention into the lives of the people being filmed or recorded
whether it is possible to observe people passively by means of on-site video and sound recordings without intervening in the lives of those people