In Ethnographic research (Ch. 9 in Curious Writer) , we often study the cultural web through reading–books, cultural artifacts, environments, and personal stories or interviews. In our study of Sherman Alexie’s Native American world, readers experience some of what Alexie has described as living in the “in-between”. Research for a 4-page (minimum) Ethnographic essay in which you discover and reveal the following in written essay form:
1) how the cultural web of the Native American appears (answers WHAT? does it look like)
2) how the cultural web of the Native American differs in tribalism (concept Alexie discussed in his interview) from the rest of Western Civilization (answers HOW? in Comparison/Contrast)
3) how the cultural web of the Native American views alcoholism AND
4) how YOU view Native American Spirituality and/or Spiritualism
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