This is an excellent and succinct explanation for ethnography and the new forms which it is taking, such as in the case of this blog in which I convey factual narratives related to my fieldwork, but written in a semi-fictional register.
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'Chacmool' Reproduction, Parque Hundido, Mexico City It was really only the moaning from next door that snapped me out of my trance. I had come all of the way to Cuernavaca from Mexico City (and all of the way to Mexico City from New Mexico...and all of the way to the US from Turkey) to experience something. Cedehc ( Centro de Desarollo Humano Hacia la Comunidad (Center for Human Development Towards the Community) is an acronym that rolls off of the tongue, much like the beautiful Nahuatl names for the places and people around many Mexican cities, names that seem so easy for the local people to say: Huitzilopochtli, Tenochtitlan, Nezahualcóyotl. The moaning was painful, feminine and low, strangely almost beautiful. I saw some starting to hover around the doorway and windows of the classroom in which Rita Navarrete was teaching. She was using a bouquet of herbs and pressing on parts of the physical frame known in Mesoamerican traditional medicine to help release and me...