Tools to Shape Texts: What Creative Nonfiction Can Offer Ethnography
Tools to Shape Texts: What Creative Nonfiction Can Offer Ethnography
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塑造文本的工具：创造性非小说可以提供什么民族志
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2007
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Kirin Narayan
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作者：
Kirin Narayan
利用小说的叙事技巧来写真实事件，创造性非小说是一个蓬勃发展的文学运动。这篇文章探讨了如何关注创造性非小说的工艺是潜在的有用的民族志。我提出了一些实用的工具，可以帮助民族志学家寻求塑造田野调查的材料：故事，情况，人物，人物，场景和总结。我也在思考如何在没有密集的说明性块的情况下包含背景材料。为了展示这些工具的作用，我提供了我自己在印度西北部喜马拉雅山麓地区的民族志写作的一部分，并从人类学家的作品中选择了一些简短的选择，这些人类学家的作品已经达到了广泛的跨学科和流行的受众。
Drawing on the storytelling techniques of fiction to write about real events, creative nonfiction is a flourishing literary movement. This article examines how attention to the craft of creative nonfiction is potentially useful to ethnography. I present a few practical tools that may help ethnographers seeking to shape the materials of fieldwork: story, situation, persona, character, scene, and summary. I also ponder how to include background material without dense expository lumps. To show these tools in action, I offer a segment of my own ethnographic writing set in the Himalayan foothill region of Northwest India and present short selections from the writings of anthropologists who have reached wide interdisciplinary and popular audiences.