TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - Epidemic suicide in a Lahu community: Converging qualitative and quantitative methods
JO  - Ethnology
A1  - Du, S.
SP  - 111
EP  - 127
VL  - 51
IS  - 2
N2  - 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 "retrospective survey" 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0014-1828
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -