Katherine A. Dettwyler's Dancing Skeleton

“Dancing Skeleton” is one of the most significant and most effective ethnic studied that has been made by the Katherine A. Dettwyler. In this book, the writer has worked for explaining the situation critical condition of different children that are facing the problems of malnutrition that has disturbed the health conditions of different children. In this book, the writer has provided his persona account and personal observations that she made during her ethnographic research in different areas of the West Africa.
In this book, the writer has described different experiences and factors that they have experienced during fieldwork conducted with a number of children facing the problem of malnutrition. There are different dramatic stories and events that have been experienced by the writer. There are a number of challenges and issues that have been faced by the writer during the ethnographic research and the fieldwork that
According to these rituals, the death and disability of children can be related to different cultures. At the majority of places, the disability of the children and women has not been taken as the negative factor. The main area of research and study conducted by the writer is about the Mali, the area from the West Africa.
It can't are described that the difference in perception and thoughts of the people create difficulty in their field study because different people have presented a different opinion about their child disability and the death of children (Dettwyler, 1994). It was observed by the writer that majority of children are not spending the healthy lives and they were facing different health problems because they were not available with the enough food. Almost the 40% of food in these areas were the rice and people are not much worried about their food cultures and food