Camping at the edge of the culture and waiting to be invited in

I'm looking for the name of a particular anthropologist who developed a unique approach for making his / her way into an indigenous culture.  He / she would go to what they could determine was the outermost edge of the culture, set up camp and just wait.  They would wait for as long as it took for someone from the culture to come out and meet them.  In the meeting there would be an "exchange of gifts" and then possibly they would be invited in a little closer into the territory of the culture.  Again they would set up camp and wait, until they were invited in further.  Eventually, they would be invited into the very center of the culture.  

 

Can anyone help me here, with the name of the person (or school or approach)?  Thanks, Gary at The STAR Institute

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Comment by Keith Hart on February 14, 2011 at 10:15pm
Welcome, Gary! I doubt if he is your man, but Evans-Pritchard was denied the right of residence by the Nuer, because they had just been bombed by the British and one of their prophets assassinated, and was forced to camp outside a village. E-P was adept at making up myths about himself, so it's just possible...

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