If you are reading Namu and Mathieu: Imagine you are a trained cultural anthropologist interested in examining the kinship structures of the Mosuo people. What aspect of their lives might you be most interested in that could be impacted by their kinship structures?
During this term, you were assigned to read either Anne Fadiman’s The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Culture or Yang Erche Namu and Christine Mathieu’s Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World. For this first Response Paper, draw […]