Abstract: In this short essay my goal is to venture into the role of story-telling and narratives in anthropological discipline and give one take on how it is possible to understand the given role. By drawing on Tim Ingold`s understanding of the processes of getting to know phenomena existing in the world around us I shortly discuss the idea of fieldwork as a cognitive journey defined by reflexivity. When doing fieldwork the anthropologist inevitably joins the stories shared with her with personal
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Anti-Slavery Office, 1845. Project Gutenberg, 2006, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23/23-h/23-h.htm . This autobiographical book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass focuses on exposing the atrocities that enslaved people suffered every day while enlightening our knowledge on the religion practices of the time. This narrative also exposes Douglass’s transformation from ignorance to knowledge, as Douglass understood the crucial
these comfort women do not only include their experiences, but also the pain, trauma, grief, and shame, and all of these are with them throughout their life. Just like Catalina Lorenzo, one of the Filipino comfort women, stated, “Do you think we have forgotten what had happened?” Everyday we wake up and it’s in our head. Every night we go to sleep, and it is with us again….It is always with us,
How this bravery is developed in my personality? The answer of this question is related with the strength and bravery which I observed in my mother’s personality during my life. During the financial crisis when my father was unable to work and fulfill the financial needs, all of my family members were hopeless but my mother show the bravery and strength and she plays the role of both mother and father. She was a very good cook
Mary Rowlandson’s captivity narrative „A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson“, published in 1682, is an account of a Puritan women held captive by Natives after having witnessed the destruction of her town and her return to her Puritan community. Although her narrative speaks greatly of Puritan faith and culture, the Puritan lens is lifted at some points and entirely neglected, telling not only the story of the faithful women withstanding and surviving savages, but
participants through their narratives showed that the recognition of their loneliness is associated with a sense of hopelessness. They described processes of coming to awareness that their efforts in repairing the broken bond were to no avail. Their narratives strongly suggested that they privilege having a close relationship. Their value of being in a relationship with whom they considered a close other, regardless of the other’s availability is apparent in their stories. The narratives describe their struggle
accepted at the time of my story: that the novelist stands next to God” (Fowles, 1970, 41). Yet, the reader never really finds out. There are things that suggest that Fowles is the one speaking, since he did
Author Mary Rowlandson wrote a narrative describing her captivity by the native Indians during 1670s. Her book then published in 1774. She organized her thoughts by grouping them into various “removes” which was her displacements with the Indians. The overall structure flows chronologically from the first remove to the twentieth one. Before she jumpstarted to the first remove, she gave a brief introduction of how it began. Upon close reading her texts, I will divide the analysis into four main components
circumstances is extremely challenging. This paper interrogates identity in the two narratives and the impact of geographical, cultural and social surroundings on the person. Jan E. Stets and Peter J. Burke in their Article “Identity Theory and Social identity Theory” Assert that: "the
dignity and sanctity of life are all considered. It is to be noted that while Ibuse himself did not experience either bombing himself, his approach is that of case observation. The interviews conducted with the hibakusha were conducted with a sensitivity that allowed him to recreate a story which shifted between politics, citizen lifestyle and the theme of war. Personally, Ibuse is without fault for publishing the stories of the hibakusha while hybridizing them into his narrative. The explicit imagery