Re: Active Ethnography

Cecilia Maria B Sardenberg (cecisard@SUNRNP.UFBA.BR)
Sat, 15 Jan 1994 09:35:19 -0200

On Fri, 14 Jan 1994, Reed D Riner wrote:

> Cecilia, I sincerely apologize for 'glossing' most of your reply.
> I get intelorenant of living in a country who's Gvt will
> provide all kinds of "medical support" without compensatory 'birth
> contol' support counseling support in concert. *I* don;t subscribe
> to that. I hope my colleagues will reply in concert!
>
Reed,
maybe my English is getting rusty... What country are you talking about?
It couldn't be about mine (Brazil). Here, the government provides no
'medical support' to the poor; however it promotes (undercover) the
massive sterilization of women (particularly black women) ... I do hope
you don't subscribe to this. As to your previous message (reply), all I
have to say is this: it makes a world of difference being a 'native'
anthropologist and somebody who is there just to get data to write a
dissertation to get a job to get tenure , etc...

Cecilia