Reflection Of Haitian Culture

Ricardo said he thought I did a good job representing the essence of family in Haitian culture. However, during our conversation I found him saying, “not everyone does that” a few times. I then had to clarify I was looking for aspects of culture as a whole, he agreed that what I had written covered that pretty well. One example is when I wrote about adoption and stepparents. I recall from our second conversation that these events do not occur very regularly so it is possible that I may have overgeneralized the situations. He felt I touched on a lot of important topics related to family, but that I could’ve elaborated more on some things. Some topics he suggested I should write more on tare he relationship between children and parents, wedding ceremonies, and funerals.

One topic Ricardo though I missed in my ethnography was death and funeral services. We briefly discussed it during our second meeting, however I did not feel like I could connect it well to the topic of family. During this meeting he elaborated on funerals a little more, he told me funerals are as important as weddings. Families make sure everyone is notified and has time to mourn and say goodbye. I think I would have been able to incorporate this by noting the parallel to weddings.

Another topic I did not touch on that my informant thought was …show more content…
In all three of the ethnographic films we saw were cyclic in the way they presented information. The Hopi video started with the origin story and ended with death, the Nuer video starts during the wet season and goes through the dry season and back to the next wet season, and the Dani video started with their origin story and ended with death. In my ethnographic paper I started with the definition of family and ended with the notion of returning to family. Formatting can impact how and what you decide to include in the ethnography, this can impact the objectivity and