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Writing the Ethnographic Story: Constructing Narrative out of Narratives by Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Writing the Ethnographic Story: Constructing Narrative out of Narratives about?

In this article, I analyse the ways in which ethnographers are sampling and constructing stories, how they listen, what they are hearing, and how they do stories. In short, it is asking how the fieldwork process of listening is turned into read ethnography. It retraces the various steps that are taken to transform fieldwork-infused narratives into refined ethnographic storytelling for academic audiences. I argue that, by neglecting continuously to review this space, anthropology and its related disciplines will continue to struggle to define their place in the canon of the social sciences and humanities. The ethnographer as author and as storyteller is very much at the heart of crafting the act of storytelling. The everevolving refinement of our methods towards narrative ethnography is in constant tension with our need and desire to be taken seriously as a social science; hence the production of ethnography is still overshadowed by the demandimagined or realto adhere to approved methods of production defined by methodologies of accountability.

Who reads Writing the Ethnographic Story: Constructing Narrative out of Narratives?

It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Arts and Humanities.

Author
Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Published
2018
Language
EN
Field
Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

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