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Storytelling As Narrative Practice : Ethnographic Approaches to the Tales We Tell.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Pragmatics SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (272 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004393936
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Storytelling As Narrative PracticeDDC classification:
  • 808.543
LOC classification:
  • LB1042 .S767 2019
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Notes on Contributors -- ‎Introduction. Ethnographic Approaches to Storytelling as Narrative Practice (Falconi and Graber) -- ‎Part 1. Boundaries of the Self -- ‎Introduction to Part 1 -- ‎Chapter 1. Defining Choices Redefined: Heroic Life Narratives of Taiwanese Buddhist Monastics (Crane) -- ‎Chapter 2. Telling Stories, Enacting Institutions: Learning How to Narrate "Coming Out" Experiences (DiDomenico) -- ‎Part 2. Negotiating Heritage -- ‎Introduction to Part 2 -- ‎Chapter 3. The Heritage Narratives of Yiddish Metalinguistic Community Members: Processes of Distancing and Closeness (Avineri) -- ‎Chapter 4. Trajectories of Treasured Texts: Laments as Narratives (Giaxoglou) -- ‎Part 3. Constructing Discursive Authority -- ‎Introduction to Part 3 -- ‎Chapter 5. Telling Traditions: The Dynamics of Zapotec Storytelling (Falconi) -- ‎Chapter 6. Etiological Storytelling and the Interdiscursive Trajectory of a Diagnostic Odyssey (Guzmán) -- ‎Chapter 7. "Syphilis Is Syphilis!": Purity and Genre in a Buryat-Russian News Story (Graber) -- ‎Index.
Summary: In Storytelling as Narrative Practice, the editors marshal a rich set of ethnographic case studies, drawn from a diverse range of global contexts, to show that storytelling is best understood contextually as a socially contingent practice.
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Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Notes on Contributors -- ‎Introduction. Ethnographic Approaches to Storytelling as Narrative Practice (Falconi and Graber) -- ‎Part 1. Boundaries of the Self -- ‎Introduction to Part 1 -- ‎Chapter 1. Defining Choices Redefined: Heroic Life Narratives of Taiwanese Buddhist Monastics (Crane) -- ‎Chapter 2. Telling Stories, Enacting Institutions: Learning How to Narrate "Coming Out" Experiences (DiDomenico) -- ‎Part 2. Negotiating Heritage -- ‎Introduction to Part 2 -- ‎Chapter 3. The Heritage Narratives of Yiddish Metalinguistic Community Members: Processes of Distancing and Closeness (Avineri) -- ‎Chapter 4. Trajectories of Treasured Texts: Laments as Narratives (Giaxoglou) -- ‎Part 3. Constructing Discursive Authority -- ‎Introduction to Part 3 -- ‎Chapter 5. Telling Traditions: The Dynamics of Zapotec Storytelling (Falconi) -- ‎Chapter 6. Etiological Storytelling and the Interdiscursive Trajectory of a Diagnostic Odyssey (Guzmán) -- ‎Chapter 7. "Syphilis Is Syphilis!": Purity and Genre in a Buryat-Russian News Story (Graber) -- ‎Index.

In Storytelling as Narrative Practice, the editors marshal a rich set of ethnographic case studies, drawn from a diverse range of global contexts, to show that storytelling is best understood contextually as a socially contingent practice.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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