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 [...]