ethnographic present

Mickey Mouse Monopoly: who

Chyng Feng Su and Miguel Picker

Mickey Mouse Monopoly: what

beauty standards, teachers little kids racism, influenced playtime ritual

Mickey Mouse Monopoly: when

1990s - 2001

Mickey Mouse Monopoly: where

United States

Mickey Mouse Monopoly: why

To critique the cultural imperialism

I am a Shaman: who

Dwight Conquergood

I am a Shaman: what

Explores Shamanism and the life of a Shaman in the United States. integrating into a culturally different society and the navigation of those structures. Shamanism as a performance, identity, and struggle. 

I am a Shaman: when

early 1980s

I am a Shaman: where

Hmong refugee communities like Minnesota and Wisconsin, United States

I am a Shaman: why

Provide a culturally relevant understanding of Shamanism as a cultural performance and resistance

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: who

Anne Fadiman

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: what

Hmong migration from Laos persecution to Thailand: military activity and shootings, land mines, deadly river, disease, starvation, death

misunderstanding between western and Hmong medicine

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: when

1980s

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: where

Merced, California

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: why

to highlight the differences between western and shaman healing practices and the importance of cultural relativism in medicine

The Split Horn: who

Taggart Seigel

The Split Horn: what

generational change, conflict, and growth within communities and in a Hmong family with a shaman father

The Split Horn: when

1990s

The Split Horn: where

Hmong refugee communities like Minnesota and Wisconsin

The Split Horn: why

highlight cultural change and growth with migration

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: who

seth holmes

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: what

examine the suffering of Triqui migrant farmworkers and their relationship with the labor systems they endured.

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: when

2004-2005

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: where

mexican American border, oaxaca mexico, Tanaka farm at Skagit valley

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: why

To understand how structural violence physically and affects the bodies of migrants.

Land of Open Graves: who

Jason De León

Land of Open Graves: what

How the border policies and the dangerous environment harm migrants

Land of Open Graves: when

2009-2014

Land of Open Graves: where

The Sonoran Desert on the U.S.-Mexico border

Land of Open Graves: why

To expose how the government used prevention through deterrence to kill and erase lives on the border.

Pretty Modern: who

Alexander Edmonds

Pretty Modern: what

Studies how cosmetic surgery in Brazil reframes “physical defects” as medical problems.

Pretty Modern: when

Early–mid 2000s

Pretty Modern: where

Rio de Janeiro

Pretty Modern: why

To show how beauty becomes medicalized and tied to inequality and ideas of being “modern.”

What Ancient Gender Fluidity Taught Me About Modern Patriarchy: who

Maria Fernanda Ugalde

What Ancient Gender Fluidity Taught Me About Modern Patriarchy: what

examining equadorian figurines that can be categorized into 3 genders and the critique of how americans interprete it as not having enough molds of the genders

What Ancient Gender Fluidity Taught Me About Modern Patriarchy: when

2020

What Ancient Gender Fluidity Taught Me About Modern Patriarchy: where

Ecuador

What Ancient Gender Fluidity Taught Me About Modern Patriarchy:why

To examine ancient Ecuadorian gender fluidity and the intentions behind historic figurines

the gender of transgendered Brazilian prostitutes: who

Don Kulick

the gender of transgendered Brazilian prostitutes: what

travisties in Brazil and gender in brazil

the gender of transgendered Brazilian prostitutes: when

mid - late 1990s

the gender of transgendered Brazilian prostitutes: where

brazil

the gender of transgendered Brazilian prostitutes: why

to provide insite on the way gender is construted in Brazil and travesties

untranslatable subjects: Travesti access to public health care in Brazil: who

alvoro jarrin

untranslatable subjects: Travesti access to public health care in Brazil: what

limited acess to plastica for travesties, homophobia from plastic surgens

untranslatable subjects: Travesti access to public health care in Brazil: when

2010s

untranslatable subjects: Travesti access to public health care in Brazil: where

Rio de Janeiro, Santa Casa

untranslatable subjects: Travesti access to public health care in Brazil: why

to show the inequalities travisties face and the additude that plastic surgeons have towards homosexuality