Who was a famous anthropologist who believed that to truly learn about another' s culture and their customs you needed to live among the people?

I believe it was Franz Boas. 
He argued that in order to understand what is (behaviors, beliefs, , symbols), one had to examine them in their local context.

You could solve them by trying something new that everyone can agree on or make a decision too.

Texas’ gulf coastal plains are the western extension of the coastal plain extending from the atlantic ocean to beyond the rio grande. its characteristic rolling to hilly surface covered with a heavy growth of pine and hardwoods extends into east texas. in the increasingly arid west, however, its forests become secondary in nature, consisting largely of post oaks and, farther west, prairies and brushlands.