Dr. Moore Quinn, Ph.D.
“A map of the world covered of one wall of the cafe, and as I huddled over a cup of coffee I noticed David staring at it intently. He glanced at me, then back at the map, then again at me, only this time with a grin that splayed his beard from ear to ear. [...]
After much thought I decided to choose Jean Briggs as an ethnographer I would like to imitate. I re-read the Kapluna Daughter and went over the material I highlighted and realized that Briggs, like Geertz was descriptive and attempted to place the reader in the society of the Utkuhiksalingmuit where Briggs was going to spend [...]
Caitlin
One of my favorite ethnographic accounts is a book called “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Daughter, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures” by Ann Fadiman. Lea, a Hmong immigrant toddler has severe epilepsy, which her family diagnoses as a flight of her soul from her body. Fadiman’s [...]
On the established anthropological principle,When in Rome, my wife and I decided, only slightly less instantaneously than everyone else,that the thing to do was run too. We ran down the main village street, northward, away from where we were living, for we were on that side of the ring. About half-way down another fugitive ducked [...]
“Today, a few special occasions aside, the newer rectitude makes so open a statement of the connection between the excitements of collective life and those of blood sport impossible, but, less directly expressed, the connection itself remains intimate and intact. To expose it, however, it is necessary to turn to the aspect of cockfighting around [...]
“As he gazed at the landscape he said to me, “Birbhum [the district Mangaldihi lies in] is the best place in the world. Everyone here knows each other and everyone loves each other.” His words made me feel exceedingly lucky to have happened on such a place: I looked around, with the winter sun warm [...]
The Owl Sources for Electronic Citing
In reading several of the ethnographies, I found that Oliver Sacks is by far my favorite in presenting people. Although the book “the Man who mistook his wife for a hat” is not necessarily a traditional ethnography, it does in some sense produce and represent a culture from which I personally know very little about. [...]
” I came across a white clothed widow in her seventies called Mejo Ma (middle mother), sitting in the dusty lane in front of her home. She could not stop complaining about clinging. her attatchments to her family, to thigs, to good food, and to her own body were so tight, she said, that she [...]
“…narratives that have been passed on orally for generations continue to provide a foundation for evaluating contemporary choices and for clarifying decisions made as young women, as mature adults and during later life. Such narratives depict humans, animals and other nonhuman being engaged in an astonishing variety of activities and committed to mutually sustaining relationships [...]