ABSTRACT
* is study is an experiment in doing and writing ethnography. We present interviews done jointly by an anthropologist and a psychoanalyst with a man of the Sambia tribe in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. We are concerned with exploring how to study subjective experience across cultural boundaries. Our aim is not to discuss theory or treatment; we did not do psychoanalysis or therapy in the field. Rather, we present the following dialogues as an example of what I have designated clinical ethnography: the use of clinical skills and concepts, focused empathy, and the explication of interpersonal relationships with informants in order to collect more precise information on the inner thoughts and feelings of others.
