Storytime in India: Wedding Songs, Victorian Tales, and the Ethnographic Experience

by Umesh Pandey, Helen Myers, Umesh Chandra Pandey

Book Overview

Stories are the backbone of ethnographic research. During fieldwork, subjects describe their lives through stories. Afterward ethnographers come home from their journeys with stories of their own about their experiences in the field.
Storytime in India is an exploration of the stories that come out of ethnographic fieldwork. Helen Priscilla Myers and Umesh Chandra Pandey examine the ways in which their research collecting Bhojpuri wedding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253041635
• ISBN13: 9780253041630
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher