This book, the bulk of which is set in Merced, California, describes growing mistrust between Neil Ernst and Peggy Philip, and Foua Yang and Na Kao Lee, over the treatment of Lia Lee's epilepsy.
This book's second chapter discusses a student in a French class who delivers a 45-minute talk about how to make fish soup to satisfy an assignment that he speak for 5 minutes, illustrating the culturally significant phase "to speak of all kind of things." In a chapter on "The Eight Questions," this book describes how two people would likely say that Yer's slamming of a door frightened another person's soul out of her body, necessitating a txiv neeb to sacrifice pigs and chickens. It mentions Congressman Tony Coelho and the characteristics of a good shaman in a discussion of its title phrase, a translation of qaug dab peg. This book, the bulk of which is set in Merced, California, describes growing mistrust between Neil Ernst and Peggy Philip, and Foua Yang and Na Kao Lee, over the treatment of Lia Lee's epilepsy. For 10 points, name this work of medical anthropology in which Anne Fadiman chronicles "a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures."
This book's second chapter discusses a student in a French class who delivers a 45-minute talk about how to make fish soup to satisfy an assignment that he speak for 5 minutes, illustrating the culturally significant phase "to speak of all kind of things."
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down