PH 215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 0: Primogeniture, Collective Unconscious, Gregory Bateson

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Public Health
• Course: PH 215
• Professor: Nancy Chin

Document Summary

An clochan: mountain hamlet in ireland where martin lives. Martin was chosen as his father"s primary heir to run the family farm, but then farming became a way of life that was no longer enviable and his siblings went off to be successful professionals. Nancy (author) had written about their community in a way martin and his family saw as. Slander, and he says that she only criticized them and that she didn"t give them credit . 1974: nancy and her family arrived in ballybran they wanted to do live-in ethnographic fieldwork for a year, and they were told that community members would not appreciate being observed by a stranger. Ethnographic fieldwork was a new and alien concept for a country people known for their privacy, family loyalty, and hospitality. She brought letters from their local chaplain vouching that she and her husband were. Good enough catholics, and so the irish catholic church gave them their blessing.