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Storytelling as narrative practice : ethnographic approaches to the tales we tell / edited by Elizabeth A. Falconi, Kathryn E. Graber.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in Pragmatics; volume19.
- Studies in Pragmatics; volume19
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Storytelling.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Language and culture.
- Anthropological linguistics.
- Ethnology--Methodology.
- Ethnology.
- Ethnic groups.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2019.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright Page
- Notes on Contributors
- Ethnographic Approaches to Storytelling as Narrative Practice / Elizabeth A. Falconi and Kathryn E. Graber
- Boundaries of the Self
- Introduction to Part 1
- Defining Choices Redefined: Heroic Life Narratives of Taiwanese Buddhist Monastics / Hillary Crane
- Telling Stories, Enacting Institutions: Learning How to Narrate “Coming Out” Experiences / Stephen M. DiDomenico
- Negotiating Heritage
- Introduction to Part 2
- The Heritage Narratives of Yiddish Metalinguistic Community Members: Processes of Distancing and Closeness / Netta Avineri
- Trajectories of Treasured Texts: Laments as Narratives / Korina Giaxoglou
- Constructing Discursive Authority
- Introduction to Part 3
- Telling Traditions: The Dynamics of Zapotec Storytelling / Elizabeth A. Falconi
- Etiological Storytelling and the Interdiscursive Trajectory of a Diagnostic Odyssey / Jennifer R. Guzmán
- “Syphilis Is Syphilis!”: Purity and Genre in a Buryat-Russian News Story / Kathryn E. Graber
- Back Matter
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004393936
- 9004393935
- OCLC:
- 1104865537
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004393936 DOI
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