Ethnography and Fiction
Where Is the Border
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2471807 |
|---|---|
| Authors | K Narayan (0000-0003-1237-3149, University of Wisconsin–Madison, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 134-147 |
| Publication date | 1999-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology & Humanism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1548-1409 • E-ISSN: 1559-9167 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/ahu.1999.24.2.134 |
| OpenAlex | W1969247735 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 55 |
| References cited | 23 |
This article seeks to identify writing practices that indicate the presence of a border between ethnography and fiction. I trace a short history of anthropologists writing fiction and draw on a short extract from a novel I am writing that was inspired byfieldwork. Writing ethnographic texts and writing fiction, I argue, involves different perspectives on (1) the disclosure of process, (2) generalization, (3) representations of subjectivity, and (4) accountability. Such orienting landmarks indicate the presence of a border, but it is a border neither impermeable nor fixed. To acknowledge this border is also to allow for mindful border crossings that may potentially enrich both ethnography and fiction
Accountability · Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Ethnography · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Sociology · Subjectivity · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 55 |
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| Citations per year | 0,96 |
| Citation span | 1969 - 2026 (58) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 54 |