TY  - BOOK
AU  - Narayan,Kirin
TI  - Alive in the writing: crafting ethnography in the company of Chekhov 
SN  - 9780226568195 (pbk.)
U1  - 305.8 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Chicago, CA
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich,
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Creative nonfiction
KW  - Ethnology in literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; (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 scene 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 --; Using this book --; Further inspiration : helpful books on writing
ER  -