As an anthropologist and ethnographer, I attempt to gain access to the participants’ memories in the way I would have liked to have been interviewed.
“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”[1]
“Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.” (Chimamanda Adichie, TED Talk)
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