Finding Durkheim's Grave
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We walked the spine of Montparnasse
searching for Durkheim's grave.
Winter sun pinned us to sky,
illuminating turrets and spires:
ornate edges of civility in this city
of sensuality and light.
Contributor Notes
Sienna R. Craig is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Healing Elements: Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine (2012), Horses Like Lightning: A Story of Passage through the Himalaya (2008) and the co-editor of Medicine between Science and Religion: Explorations on Tibetan Grounds (2010), among other publications. Craig enjoys writing across genres, from narrative ethnography to creative nonfiction, fiction, children's literature and poetry. Her book, The Ends of Kinship: Himalayan Communities between Nepal and New York, is forthcoming from the University of Washington Press.