Agawu

In the Ethics of Representation, Kofi Agawu discusses the need for taking ethics into consideration when conducting fieldwork. He considers ethics to be important for conducting research that maintains an "honest" relationship with those who are being researched, but at the same time, he denotes "deception" as being a necessary evil in the overall process. He sees upholding ethics as a problematic to researches who continue to research other cultures from a prospective dictated by there own background. He doesn't mention epoche' as a means of correcting the problem, but he does recall several experiences where ethics are either compromised or applied in his researched.
One experience that fascinated me was the occurrence of him asking to film the drum. Here he remembered feeling as if in that instant, the the Peki saw him as "other" (a spy) rather than a participant in the culture. Is this the deception Agawu was talking about?