Below you can find articles and books that guided my methodological, epistemological, and historical understanding of forms of storytelling and narrative making in ethnographic accounts:
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Benjamin, Walter. 2007[1936]. “The Storyteller: Reflections on the Works of Nikolai Leskov.” In Illuminations: Essays and Reflections. New York: Schocken Books. 83-109.
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Brackenbury, Anne. 2015.”How I Learned to Love Comics: An Anthropology Editor Sees the Light.” In: Teaching Culture website. http://www.utpteachingculture.com/how-i-learned-to-love-comics-an-anthropology-editor-sees-the-light/
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Clifford, James.1986. “Introduction: Partial Truths.” In: James Clifford and George Marcus (eds.) Writing Culture. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 1-26.
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Geertz, Clifford. 1988. Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
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Gordon, Nikki. 2020. “Open the Box.” TheJUMP+: The Journal for Undergraduate Multimedia Projects: 10.1. https://jumpplus.net/issue-10-1/open-the-box/
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McLean, Stuart. 2017. Fictionalizing Anthropology: Encounters and Fabulations at the Edges of the Human. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
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Musharbash, Yasmine and Gershon, Ilana. 2023. “Introduction: Here Be Monsters” In: Living with Monsters: Ethnographic Fiction about Real Monsters. Goleta, CA: Punctum Books. 15-29.
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Narayan, Kirin. 1999. “Ethnography and Fiction: Where is the Border?” Anthropology and Humanism 24 (2): 134-147.
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Narayan, Kirin. 2012. Alive in Writing: Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
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Pandian, Anand. 2017. “Ethnography and Fiction.” In: Pandian, Anand and McLean, Stuart (eds.) Crumpled Paper Boat: Experiments in Ethnographic Writing. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 145-147.
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Pandian, Anand and McLean, Stuart (eds.). 2017. Crumpled Paper Boat: Experiments in Ethnographic Writing. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
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Pigg, Stacy Leigh. 2015. “Learning Graphic Novels from an Artist’s Perspective.” In: Teaching Culture website. http://www.utpteachingculture.com/learning-graphic-novels-from-an-artists-perspective/
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Porter, Natalie and Gershon, Ilana (eds.). 2018. Living with Animals: Bonds across Species. Itacha, NY: Cornell Unviersity Press.
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Rosaldo, Renato. 1989. Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis. Boston: Beacon Press.
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Sloan, Robin. 2022. Fish: A Tap Essay. https://www.robinsloan.com/fish/
- Stone, Nomi and Carole McGranahan. 2020. “Flash Ethnography: An Introduction.” In “Flash Ethnography,” Carole McGranahan and Nomi Stone (eds.). American Ethnologist website, 26 October 2020. https://americanethnologist.org/features/collections/flash-ethnography/flash-ethnography-an-introduction
If you are interested in reading a selection of these readings or if you are an instructor looking for readings to assign for a module on ethnographic storytelling, I suggest this list of readings. In addition to articles and books, I also suggest these other resources.