An edition of Alive in the writing
(2012)
Alive in the writing
crafting ethnography in the company of Chekhov
by Kirin Narayan
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Alive in the Writing: Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov
2012, University of Chicago Press
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Alive in the Writing: Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov
2012, University of Chicago Press
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Alive in the writing: crafting ethnography in the company of Chekhov
2012, University of Chicago Press
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Table of Contents
Story and theory. Taking stock: parts and wholes ; Looking back: the power of first impressions ; Scenes, summaries, events ; Situation, story, theory ; Chekhov as ethnographic muse
Place. The place of writing ; Passage to more than a place ; The feel of a place ; Others' perceptions ; Landscapes transformed ; Wide angles and close-ups ; Painful places ; The meeting place of texts
Person. Types and individuals ; The embodied person ; Lives told by things ; Inner biography ; Nonhuman persons ; Imagining across time
Voice. How voices sound ; Key words, key concepts ; Transcribing conversation and performance ; Quotation and paraphrase ; Pauses, guarded words, words in veiled forms ; Cultivating your own voice
Self. Narrating ; Explaining ; Evoking ; Transforming ; Reframing ; Connecting ; Postscript writing to be alive
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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