During Hurricane Maria, a father who had flown over with his daughter to Puerto Rico conducted an ethnographic research study documenting his observations of the effects the hurricane had on the community. He documented the effects from the hurricane and the damage such as closed roads, fallen trees, debris, and missing streetlights. However, when interviewing residents about the hurricane and the political and historical contexts of traditional herbal practices, he realized he was engaging in a form of Eurocentric ethnography which is a very colonized form of ethnography. Due to this, he shifted his ethnographic research approach from interviewing to instead writing their stories without interviewing.