Jero Tapakan and Other Teachers
Stories, Friendship and Ethnographic Practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2174515 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Linda H Connor, Linda Connor (0000-0003-0266-0080, Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 177-188 |
| Publication date | 2008-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canberra Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0314-9099 • E-ISSN: 1740-9314 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14442210802251621 |
| OpenAlex | W2004013604 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
Compelling speech and spirited conversation in Bali almost always includes good stories. Healers draw on a fund of stories to heal, divert and entertain their patients. Stories take on new life over many tellings and patients and healers mutually construct narratives that open up new healing possibilities. These processes also characterise the ways in which relationships between ethnographers and their circle of teachers, relatives, friends, colleagues and the local people who become teachers and mentors can be forged through the shared experiences that make stories. In long-term research relationships, the close friendships that develop become stories in themselves as lives become intertwined in a cultural and emotional space that is outside the ‘ironic’ mode of ethnographic inquiry. These themes are explored through discussion of the author's friendship with the Balinese healer Jero Tapakan, as well as through other field research relationships
Aesthetics · Art · Construct (python library) · Conversation · Ethnography · Friendship · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Pedagogy · Social science · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Anthropology · Asian Studies and History · Communication · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |