Tools to Shape Texts: What Creative Nonfiction Can Offer Ethnography
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Drawing on the storytelling techniques of fiction to write about realevents, creative nonfiction is a flourishing literary movement. This article examineshow attention to the craft of creative nonfiction is potentially useful to ethnography. Ipresent a few practical tools that may help ethnographers seeking to shape the materi-als of fieldwork: story, situation, persona, character, scene, and summary. I also ponderhow to include background material without dense expository lumps. To show...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2007-12 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/100179 |
Source: | Anthropology & Humanism |
DOI: | 10.1525/ahu.2007.32.2.130 |
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