
Storytelling as Narrative Practice
Ethnographic Approaches to the Tales We Tell
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 18. July 2019
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-90-04-37279-5 (ISBN)
Description
Telling stories is one of the fundamental things we do as humans. Yet in scholarship, stories considered to be "traditional", such as myths, folk tales, and epics, have often been analyzed separately from the narratives of personal experience that we all tell on a daily basis. In Storytelling as Narrative Practice, editors Elizabeth Falconi and Kathryn Graber argue that storytelling is best understood by erasing this analytic divide. Chapter authors carefully examine language use in-situ, drawing on in-depth knowledge gained from long-term fieldwork, to present rich and nuanced analyses of storytelling-as-narrative-practice across a diverse range of global contexts. Each chapter takes a holistic ethnographic approach to show the practices, processes, and social consequences of telling stories.
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Series
Edition
approx. viii, 245 pp., index
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
9 s/w Tabellen, 14 farbige Abbildungen
9 Tables, black and white; 14 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
522 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-37279-5 (9789004372795)
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Elizabeth A. Falconi, Ph.D. (2011), University of Michigan, is a Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of West Georgia. Her recent publications include a chapter entitled "The Social Mediatization of a Zapotec Transborder Community," in the coedited volume Rural Voices.
Kathryn E. Graber, Ph.D. (2012), University of Michigan, is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University. Her publications on language, media, and materiality in Russia and Mongolia include a monograph on Buryat minority media (Cornell, forthcoming).
Kathryn E. Graber, Ph.D. (2012), University of Michigan, is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University. Her publications on language, media, and materiality in Russia and Mongolia include a monograph on Buryat minority media (Cornell, forthcoming).