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McClusky, Laura J. "'Here, Our Culture is Hard': Narrative Ethnography, Domestic Violence and 'The Young Women's Revolt' in San Antonio, Belize," Department of Anthropology, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, April 1998.
This is a narrative ethnography about wife abuse in a Mopan Maya village in southern Belize, Central America based on ten months of participant-observation. It describes women’s experiences with abusive husbands, the negotiations which legitimize violence and women’s attempts to flee or endure abuse. It also describes the paths young women take to avoid abusive relationships. This dissertation argues that narrative ethnography can help to re-humanize our understanding of domestic violence since it allows the researcher to convey a deep contextual understanding of people’s lives. Narrative ethnography is a tool to help us develop a richer understanding of abuse and women’s response to it.
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