In reading several of the ethnographies, I found that Oliver Sacks is by far my favorite in presenting people.  Although the book “the Man who mistook his wife for a hat” is not necessarily a traditional ethnography, it does in some sense produce and represent a culture from which I personally know very little about.  I would have to say that my personaly atraction to Oliver’s style of writing would be the depth and literary stimuli that exudes from this particular work.  I feel as though Oliver is presenting not patients, but rather people, as he is, who have peculiar conditions, but non the less, are real people with real wants, emotions, and needs.  This really hits home to me because I feel thats who we are as anthropologists.  However I do feel through ethnography can and is misused.  How can ethnography be both qualitative and quantitative if the reality being presented is not the true reality of the people, but rather the reality of the writer. Should Ethnographies be used and presented as knowledge and reality of a people? I do not know, for I am in the beginings of my anthropological view of life.  Sorry this post ended up being so long.

Byron