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Mamma Lied: I Discovered Death, Became an Anthropologist, and Found You

Louisiana State University

Can a catastrophic experience in early life contribute to the qualitative inquiry of what we humans are about? It may do so if the narrating of that experience clarifies that authentically the "we" is never a "they," nor even a "Self-Other," but an "I-you." Such authentication of the "we" suggests that I am only in your presence; consequently, if you die, am I not dead also?

Key Words: life history • Self and Other • death • autoethnography

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