ANTH 319.090 | Research Methods in Expressive Culture

ANTH 319.090 | Research Methods in Expressive Culture

Dr. Moore Quinn, Ph.D.

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Archive for April 2nd, 2009

The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat

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 [...]

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