@article{ref1,
title="Epidemic suicide in a Lahu community: Converging qualitative and quantitative methods",
journal="Ethnology",
year="2012",
author="Du, S.",
volume="51",
number="2",
pages="111-127",
abstract="This article explores an epidemic of love-suicide in a Lahu community of southwest China in the 1950s. Suicide's rarity and the methodological constraints of ethnographic fieldwork have severely hampered attempts to understand suicide cross-culturally. Using qualitative and quantitative research methods in a longitudinal fieldwork study provides insights regarding the patterns of suicide in a marginalized ethnic group. By developing a &quot;retrospective survey&quot; of suicide based on cluster sampling, this research demonstrates how to effectively incorporate a quantitative dimension in community-based fieldwork. This helps develop better ethnographic methods for documenting suicide and providing better data for cross-cultural comparison. (Suicide, China, ethnographic method, ethnic minority) Copyright © 2014 The University of Pittsburgh. All rights reserved.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0014-1828",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}