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Summary Of Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down By Anne Fadiman

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Anne Fadiman’s professional background is that of the Hmong lifestyle with its cultures against the entire American culture. In his background, there is miscommunication resulting from the refusal of the give medical dosages and other medicines due to the misunderstandings and mistrust. According to Barnsteiner , (p.71), there is also the inability of the US doctors to treat those people deeply rooted in the Hmong culture and they are also unable to learn that culture in the most helpful. Hmong is a refugee family in the US and that is where Ann Fadiman comes from. They come from provinces such as Laos and Sainyabuli which have tried to interact with the healthcare system in California and Merced. The interaction with the healthcare system …show more content…

Ethnographic research is usually the study of people in their real environment and world where they interact with each other and not in artificial laboratories. Ethnographic research is meant gather information on how people live and what they believe in. The book Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down exemplifies strongly the ethnographic research as it tries to analyze the culture of the Hmong and their relation with the rest of the US people who do not live in that refugee camp. First, the Hmong people are those people who strongly believe in their culture. Laws and Chilton, (p.185) says that they do not interact with the other cultures freely in matters dealing with their health. They only believes in their natural healing and not going for medical services from other doctors as they has mistrust and misunderstandings with …show more content…

First, she could have made herself fit into the Hmong culture and be part of them then look like perceiving the American doctors medical healing to be a behavioral side effect and mistrust that could not heal their daughter (Westby, p.132). Then she could have went ahead and finding all the relevant information about her culture and why they are so spiritual and naïve of going for medical treatment for her sister Lia Lee. Secondly, she could have gone into the American hospitals and tried to find out why they believe in medicine much and not spiritual healing and thus she could have gotten enough information which could have made her a better anthropologist. The methods she majorly used to gather her data as sources for writing her book were reading of the medical journals thus medical anthropology and listening to several lectures that build her

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