Article Title
"You Best Read It to Me My Dear": Methodological Issues with Marginally Literate Subjects
Document Type
Article
Abstract
An analysis of case examples from a study of women's experience of menopause in a New found land fishing village, demonstrates the problems inherent in using questionnaires among marginally literate or illiterate populations. Evidence demonstrates that not only are the questions misunderstood by the respondents but also that questionnaires by themselves may inadvertently generate their own peculiar form of native menopause lore. Special consideration is given to describing the methodological problems of anthropological fieldwork in a small community.
Recommended Citation
Davis, Donna L.
(1993)
""You Best Read It to Me My Dear": Methodological Issues with Marginally Literate Subjects,"
Great Plains Sociologist: Vol. 6:
Iss.
1, Article 2.
Available at:
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/greatplainssociologist/vol6/iss1/2