Early Ethnography

My Life History

My Life History

I was born in February. While I was growing up daddy would take a lot of pictures of me and then they [my parents] would stick them in a photo album. Mommy was very attached to me and she would bring me wherever they went. When I must have been something like two or three, a girl named Laura would always come to visit. Now Laura is 16 years old.

[Composition done in class. First Grade.]

Reflections on Urban and Cosmic (!) Sociology

Composition

[Literally “Little thoughts”]

Today it has snowed on the mountains.
Tomorrow it’s the beginning of the month of December. In our class there are many drawings. In the sky there are the stars and the moon. Genoa is my home town. The sea is quite rough. The stars are in the sky.
There is snow on the mountains.

[Composition done in class. First grade.]