Spark Talk: Ethnographic Methods for Identifying Cultural Concepts of Distress: Developing Reliable and Valid Measures by Jeffrey Snodgrass (Feb 9, 2024)

Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/02/2024
10:30 am - 11:30 am

Description: In this talk, Dr. Snodgrass will review ethnographic methods that allow researchers to assess distress in a culturally sensitive manner. He will focus on describing the development of reliable and valid culturally sensitive assessment tools that can serve as complements or alternatives to biomedical categories and diagnostic frameworks.

Bio: Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, Professor of Anthropology at Colorado State University, is a cultural and psychological anthropologist who examines how ritual and play identities and processes contribute to health and well-being, including in situations of social and environmental precarity. This topic is the focus of his recent book, The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games (University of California Press, 2023). He also specializes in research methods and mixes qualitative and quantitative approaches to data collection and analysis in his ethnographic studies. You can read more about this approach in his recent book, Systematic Methods for Analyzing Culture: A Practical Guide (Routledge, 2021).