Since the 1970s like discipline of history, in all other disciplines (especially in sociology and anthropology) which want to produce knowledge about the other, there is a crisis about producing "objective" knowledge or representation. In this crisis, while some of the thought movements seek to include the other in present science paradigms, some other tendencies challenges the notions which constitutes subaltern groups as "other". Therefore second group wants to cope with positivist epistemology which Western modernity is based on. In a same way second group problematize the social, political and economical conditions (capitalism as the dominant phenomenon) which the knowledge is produced. I think it is important that the discipline of anthropology which has a special relation with colonialism, overcome the knowledge of modern science, particularly positivism which serves colonial power. In other words, I think while trying to produce "objective" knowledge about the "other" should look at how the Other is constituted as the object of the knowledge. As an academic in folklore, as a subject who tries to produce knowledge about another culture, I want to deal critically with the knowledge tradition which I live within. In this paper I will try to deal with epistemology and ethnography. I will look at the influence of universal positivist epistemology in producing and reinforcing the colonial relations. In particular, its universalism, objectivity, subject and object distinction, positivist and hermeneutic traditions were discussed through knowledge and knowing the known.