Storytime in India - Wedding Songs, Victorian Tales, and the Ethnographic Experience (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Indiana University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2019
First published:	2019
Authors:	Helen Priscilla Myers • Umesh Chandra Pandey
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	544
ISBN-13:	978-0-253-04163-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Folk music Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Myths & mythology Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Customs & folklore > Folklore Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Myths & mythology Books > Music > Folk music
LSN:	0-253-04163-5
Barcode:	9780253041630

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