Anthropology essay question

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. 

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