Healing Rituals
Choose ONE of the following ethnographies to read.
- Inner City Poverty – ACTIONSPhilip Bourgois lives with and gets to know New York City crack dealers.
- Migrant Conversions – ACTIONSErica Vogel explores the religious life of undocumented Peruvian migrants living in South Korea.
- Working with “La Medicina”ACTIONS– Evgenia Fotiou explores the Amazonian use of the drug, ayahuasca, is a key to healing rituals.
Read your chosen article carefully. Pay attention to how key concepts and methods in ethnography are applied (see list below).
When you are done, summarize the key ideas in your article in a minimum of 500 word discussion.
You should discuss:
1) What was the subject of the ethnography?
- Who were the people who were being studied? Where did they live? What was the topic being studied? etc.
2) What methods were used to gather information?
