Date: February 12\, 2009<
br />Time: 11:30 AM
Location: ANSO\,
6303 NW Marine Dr.
While ethnography is the st andard disciplinary genre for communicating insights from fieldwork\, since at least 1890 some anthropologists have turned to fiction. I present ethno graphy and fiction as shadow selves connected by a narrative impulse. Refle cting on the shared history\, porous borders\, and joint practitioners of e thnography and fiction\, I also discuss some related mediating terms: oral narrative that is partly ethnographic in its evocation of lived milieus\, p artly fictional in the imaginative spaces it opens\; ethnographic fiction i n which anthropologists have carried insights from fieldwork into short sto ries and novels\; and creative nonfiction as it appears in fieldwork memoir s and autoethnography.
Kirin Narayan is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin\, Madison. She is author of Storytellers\, Sain ts and Scoundrels: Folk Narrative in Hindu Religious Teaching (which won th e 1990 Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing and was Co-winner of th e 1990 Elsie Clews Parsons Prize for Folklore)\; Mondays on the Dark Night of the Moon: Himalayan Foothill Folktales (in collaboration with Urmila Dev i Sood)\; Love Stars and All That (a novel)\; and My Family and Other Saint s (a memoir).
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