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crafting ethnography in the company of Chekhov

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"Alive in the writing" was published by University of Chicago Press in 2012 - Chicago, it has 154 pages and the language of the book is English.


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  • Title: Alive in the writing
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  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: 154
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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  • Publish Location: Chicago

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  • Pagination: xiii, 154 p. ;

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"Alive in the writing" Table Of Contents:

  • 1- Story and theory. Taking stock: parts and wholes ; Looking back: the power of first impressions ; Scenes, summaries, events ; Situation, story, theory ; Chekhov as ethnographic muse
  • 2- Place. The place of writing ; Passage to more than a place ; The feel of a place ; Others' perceptions ; Landscapes transformed ; Wide angles and close-ups ; Painful places ; The meeting place of texts
  • 3- Person. Types and individuals ; The embodied person ; Lives told by things ; Inner biography ; Nonhuman persons ; Imagining across time
  • 4- Voice. How voices sound ; Key words, key concepts ; Transcribing conversation and performance ; Quotation and paraphrase ; Pauses, guarded words, words in veiled forms ; Cultivating your own voice
  • 5- Self. Narrating ; Explaining ; Evoking ; Transforming ; Reframing ; Connecting ; Postscript writing to be alive
  • 6- Using this book
  • 7- Further inspiration: helpful books on writing.

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