Tanya Boyanova, is a student in SA 875: Ethnographic Methodologies: Graduate Seminar, taught by Dara Culhane. This assignment invited students to write a poem about preparing to begin an “Interview/Conversation” assignment.
“…the antropoeta …
…LISTENS and LISTENS
…UNTIL she …HEARS
… attending with PATIENCE and CARE”
… she knows “MEANING… is waiting TO BE FOUND.”
(Rosaldo, 2014, p. 107)
ON FINDING THE PERSON TO LISTEN TO
How do I find the person
who speaks in a foreign tongue
the language of images close to the heart,
the language of images close to the soul.
The language, the language,
The mother tongue.
How do I find the person
who speaks in a foreign language the mother tongue?
Reference
Rosaldo, Renato (2014) “Notes on Poetry and Ethnography,” in The Day of Shelly’s Death: the poetry and ethnography of grief.” Durham, NC: Duke University Press, pp. 101 – 113.
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