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Storytime in India - Wedding Songs, Victorian Tales, and the Ethnographic Experience (Paperback)
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Storytime in India - Wedding Songs, Victorian Tales, and the Ethnographic Experience (Paperback)
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Stories are the backbone of ethnographic research. During
fieldwork, subjects describe their lives through stories. Afterward
ethnographers come home from their journeys with stories of their
own about their experiences in the field. Storytime in India is an
exploration of the stories that come out of ethnographic fieldwork.
Helen Priscilla Myers and Umesh Chandra Pandey examine the ways in
which their research collecting Bhojpuri wedding songs became
interwoven with the stories of their lives, their work together,
and their shared experience reading The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony
Trollope. Moving through these intertwined stories, the reader
learns about the complete Bhojpuri wedding tradition through songs
sung by Gangajali and access to the original song recordings and
their translations. In the interludes, Pandey reads and interprets
The Eustace Diamonds, confronting the reader with the ever-present
influence of colonialism, both in India and in ethnographic
fieldwork. Interwoven throughout are stories of the everyday,
highlighting the ups and downs of the ethnographic experience.
Storytime in India combines the style of the Victorian novel with
the structure of traditional Indian village tales, in which stories
are told within stories. This book questions how we can and should
present ethnography as well as what we really learn in the field.
As Myers and Pandey ultimately conclude, writers of scholarly books
are storytellers themselves and scholarly books are a form of art,
just like the traditions they study.
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