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I went through Anne Fadiman's the spirit catches you and you fall down and found it to be far removed from conventional anthropological texts.... … the spirit catches you and you fall down: An Anthropological Interpretation [ your name ] [ course name / number ] [Publish Date] Dear Fellow Student, I went through Anne Fadiman's the spirit catches you and you fall down and found it to be far removed from conventional anthropological texts....
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Lia, the focus of the book, was a young Hmong girl born in the United States, with what American medicine calls severe epilepsy, and what Hmong medicine calls the spirit catches you and you fall down.... In Hmong culture, seizures are seen as a sign that the person can communicate with the spirit world, and has the makings of a shaman.... Seizures are not medicated, (there are no drugs for that) but respected as a time the spirit seeks the spirit world to commune with others....
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the spirit catches you and you fall down' by Anne Fadiman is an exceptional non fictional work that portrays the myriad emotions and traits of human being, in a world that is increasingly becoming multicultural.... The book is a sensitive depiction of the conflicts and… od values within the pluralistic society of California where the protagonists fight for the life of a sick girl child and struggle against odds to keep her alive....
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However, in the case of Lia, from the work of Anna Fadiman entitled the spirit catches you and you fall down, the doctors of Merced Community Medical Center have not taken into consideration the spiritual culture of the Hmong people about childbirth.... ?? (fadiman, 1997) This quote manifests the clear problem about medicalization.... It would be that much harder if you were from another culture and didn't understand the purpose of these things....
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The first the spirit catches you and you fall down Group 1Question 2 Hmong American is a group of Asians Americans who migrated from Thailand in 1975.... the spirit catches you and you fall down.... The issues that anne fadiman raises in this book can affect my life in college and at home as a citizen.... Group 2 Question 1 This book raises issues related to culture and religion (fadiman).... Works CitedFadiman, anne....
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Anne Fadiman evenhandedly presents a case between medical culture and the Hmong culture in her book, ‘the spirit catches you and you fall down.... the spirit catches you and you fall down is an analogy that represents epilepsy in the Hmong world.... Anne evenhandedly describes… conflict between the Hmong culture and the medical culture as she presents a case where Foua and Nao Kao Lee refuse to give their daughter the correct prescription of the medicine from the doctor on the perception that the medicine makes their child sicker while in reality, it the spirit catches you and you fall down Anne Fadiman evenhandedly presents a case between medical culture and the Hmong culture in her book, ‘the spirit catches you and you fall down....
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It is believed that epilepsy is caused when the spirit separates from the body.... Her family never gave up on her though, her whole life Lia spent at her family home being cared for by different members of her family (fadiman 7).... Her parents could not speak English thus communication was very difficult between the medical staff and the Hmong family since the hospital had no interpreter (fadiman 8).... The Lee believed then that an evil spirit had invaded their daughter....
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They refer to her seizure as quag dab peg which means “the spirit catches you and you fall down”.... The book report "Ethical Analysis of Independent Reading of the spirit catches" describes the spirit that catches the author and falls down; A Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures.... anne fadiman in the course of her story provides us a vivid and detailed history of the Hmong in Laos.... However, fadiman even though an American looks at it from a totally different perspective....
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