Journal articles: 'Ethnographic Fiction'

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Lewis, Eshe. "Ethnographic Fiction." Anthropology and Humanism 45, no. 2 (November 3, 2020): 365–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/anhu.12305.

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Walz, Markus, Patrizia Hoyer, and Matt Statler. "After Herzog: blurring fact and fiction in visual organizational ethnography." Journal of Organizational Ethnography 5, no. 3 (October 10, 2016): 202–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/joe-07-2016-0017.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce the unique artistic approach of film-maker Werner Herzog as an inspiration to rethink ethnographic studies in general and the notion of reflexivity in particular. Design/methodology/approach This paper reviews the particularities of Werner Herzog’s approach to filmmaking, linking them to the methodological tradition of visual ethnography and especially the debate about the role of reflexivity and performativity in research. Findings Herzog’s conceptualization of meaning as “ecstatic truth” offers an avenue for visual organizational ethnographers to rethink reflexivity and performativity, reframe research findings and reorganize research activities. The combination of multiple media and the strong authorial involvement exhibited in Herzog’s work, can inspire and guide the development of “meaningful” organizational ethnographies. Originality/value The paper argues that practicing visual organizational ethnography “after Herzog” offers researchers an avenue to engage creatively with their research in novel and highly reflexive ways. It offers a different way to think through some of the challenges often associated with ethnographic research.

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JT Torres. "Data Telling Stories and Stories Telling Data: The Role of Fiction in Shaping Ethnographic Truth." Britain International of Humanities and Social Sciences (BIoHS) Journal 2, no. 1 (January 24, 2020): 9–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.33258/biohs.v2i1.137.

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The following essay explores the use of fiction in ethnographic research. While the concept of fiction as a research methodology is not a new one, most proponents claim that fiction is most useful in the writing of ethnographic data. Despite the gradual acceptance of arts-based methods in ethnography, there still remains a false dichotomy of art and scientific research. This essay contributes to the discussion by arguing that fiction also plays an active role in producing knowledge and truth. To make this argument, the author brings together in conversation scholars of art and literature with social researchers. While multiple examples are illustrated to show how fiction creates knowledge in ethnography, the primary focus will be Clifford Geertz’s (2005) “Notes on a Balinese Cockfight.” The purpose is to demonstrate how fiction can be a means of knowledge production, so long as it is situated in sound research methods.

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Sparkes, Andrew C. "Fictional Representations: On Difference, Choice, and Risk." Sociology of Sport Journal 19, no. 1 (March 2002): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.19.1.1.

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This article is intended to stimulate debate regarding recent calls for fictional representations to be used within the sociology of sport. Based on the notion of “being there,” it differentiates between ethnographic fiction and creative fiction. Examples of the former are provided, and their grounding in the tradition of creative nonfiction is established. Moves toward the use of creative fiction are then considered in relation to the willingness of authors to invent people, places, and events in the service of producing an illuminative and evocative story. The issue of purpose is highlighted and various reasons why researchers might opt to craft an ethnographic fiction or creative fiction are discussed. Next, some risks associated with choosing fictional forms of representation are considered. Finally, the issue of passing judgment on new writing practices is briefly discussed.

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MANE, Youssoupha. "The Poiesis of Writing Culture: Ordained by the Oracle by Asare Konadu as an African Ethnographic Novel Unveiling the Asante’s Traditions." ALTRALANG Journal 4, no. 01 (June 30, 2022): 53–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.52919/altralang.v4i01.179.

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The paper specifically beams its searchlights on the incident of the ethnographic mode of narration in the crafting of the narrative fiction — Ordained by the Oracle (1969) by the Asare Konadu. The novel is scrutinized as an inventory of Asante customs, moral, social and religious philosophy. It becomes the art of thick descriptions, the intricate interweaving of plots and counterplots. Asare Konadu is labelled here as a journalist-novelist and ethnographer-novelist who has adhered strictly to social ethnographic facts as he pertained to the etched culture. Konadu has selected some Asante ethnographic data (funeral ritual performances, mythology, divination, chieftainship, etc. and woven them into a plot around imaginary Asante hero and heroine through a blurred writing genre—ethnographic fiction encompassing compelling events and useful ethnographic detail which advance the reader’s ability to understand the constrictions of circumstance on characters.

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Hecht, Tobias. "A Case for Ethnographic Fiction." Anthropology News 48, no. 2 (February 2007): 17–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/an.2007.48.2.17.

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Radhay, Rachael Anneliese. "The politics of translating ethnographic ideoscapes the death and life of Aida Hernandez: a border story." Cadernos de Tradução 41, no. 2 (May 25, 2021): 45–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-7968.2021.e77054.

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The ecology of immigration discourse is an ideoscape in flux. It is a landscape constructed along human mobility, lifeworlds, ontological state security as well as along emotional and institutional complexities. There has been significant recent proliferation of border literature and ethnographies that represent narratives of migrants on the U.S-Mexico border. Ethnography as non-fiction literature documents border trajectories. This paper seeks to address how these trajectories are represented and or translated through a case study of the non-fiction work, The death and life of Aida Hernandez: a border story by Aaron Bobrow-Strain (2019) in which there is a distinct ecology in the ethos of ethnography and immigrant criminalization. This case study assesses therefore the relation between the politics of ethnographic ideoscapes, translation and agency based upon Critical Discourse Analysis (Wodak & Kollner, 2008; Wodak & Meyer, 2016) as well as evaluation and decision-making (Munday, 2012) when translating ethnography as a genre of represented voices.

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Gramatchikova, Natalya. "The Peoples of Northern Russia Through the Eyes of Russian Writer and Ethnographer S. V. Maksimov." Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 25, no. 1 (March 1, 2016): 26–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2016.250103.

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Mid-nineteenth-century Russian ethnography used fiction, artistry and education to enlighten the masses. Maksimov’s One Year in the North became one of the first examples of this new style of ethnography. Maksimov constructs ‘cultural masks’ regarding northern people (Samoyeds, Lapps, Karels, Zyrians). His impressions are developed out of long traditions and personal characterisations, such as: ‘little brothers’, blacksmiths, tricksters, ‘friends of deer and dogs’. The most interesting positions on his ‘evolutionary ladder’ are the first and the last, which belong to the Samoyeds and the Zyrians. Samoyeds find themselves partly outside the human space, but they are most diverse in the aspect of artistry. Zyrians, on the other hand, constitute a concern to their well-being. Maksimov’s biases are typical for this period of ethnographic development. Although Maksimov appreciates the spoken word, his colonial discourse replaced it by repulsion for Finno- Ugric languages. Artistry in the text of ‘ethnographic fiction’ enriches scientific discourse.

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Culyba, Rebecca J., Carol A. Heimer, and JuLeigh Coleman Petty. "The Ethnographic Turn: Fact, Fashion, or Fiction?" Qualitative Sociology 27, no. 4 (2004): 365–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/b:quas.0000049238.27735.79.

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Sparkes, Andrew C. "Ethnographic Fiction and Representing the Absent Other." Sport, Education and Society 2, no. 1 (March 1997): 25–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1357332970020102.

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Wärnlöf, Christofer. "The ‘Discovery’ of the Himba: The Politics of Ethnographic Film Making." Africa 70, no. 2 (May 2000): 175–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/afr.2000.70.2.175.

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AbstractThis article is concerned with the way an African ethnic group is represented in the medium of television. It is argued, first, that, in the broad spectrum of programmes, ethnographic films will never be in the top rank. Nevertheless, as part of a general range appealing to an intellectual and academic audience, ethnographic films will be competing in this market. One solution is to let ethnographic films become more attractive through a closer resemblance to fictional films. But it creates a dilemma for an ethnographic film screened on television, as it must legitimise its position by differentiating itself from fiction through establishing a certain realism while at the same time employing fictional devices to dramatise ethnographic ‘stories’. This leads to distorted and sometimes racist undertones. The second issue concerns the ambitions of the film team. Their temporary role in the locality becomes political when, as inevitably happens, they favour, and are favoured by, one section of the local community in order to fulfil their mission of producing an ethnographic film. A split in the community is caused by such external forces and justified by the fact that we are all ‘living in a global village’.

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Prahlad, Sw Anand. "Getting Happy: An Ethnographic Memoir." Journal of American Folklore 118, no. 467 (January 1, 2005): 21–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4137807.

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Abstract This piece includes excerpts taken from a book-length project that, more than anything else, is driven by personal crises arising from schizophrenia so common among first generation and minority academicians. My foremost goal was not to transform ethnographic practices, although the usefulness of ethnographic elements to such a project proves instructive. A merger between folkloristics and creative writing was a natural consequence of the more fundamental quest upon which I had embarked. In the effort to highlight moments in my life in which the spiritual, paired with the educational experiences occurring at a particular time, could be illuminated, I developed a hybrid form of discourse that draws upon elements of the memoir, creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and ethnography.

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Munos, Delphine. "Afrasian Entanglements and Generic Ambiguities in Sultan Somjee’s Bead Bai." Matatu 52, no. 1 (November 22, 2021): 188–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-05201012.

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Abstract This article looks at Sultan Somjee’s Bead Bai (2012) which focuses on Sakina, a member of the Satpanth Ismaili community living in mid-twentieth century Kenya. Based on nine years of research and interviews with Khoja women who now reside in Western Europe and North America, Bead Bai is generally described as a “historical novel” or an “ethnographic fiction,” yet it also can be thought of as pertaining to the genre of what Brett Smith et al. (2015) call “ethnographic creative nonfiction.” I discuss the ways in which the ‘genre-bending’ aspects of Bead Bai participate in retracing the little-known history of Afrasian entanglements for Asian African women who sorted out, arranged and looked after ethnic beads during colonial times in East Africa. More specifically, I will suggest that, by toying with the boundary between fiction and ethnography, Somjee opens new gendered avenues for reinserting the category of the imaginary at the heart of Afrasian entanglements.

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Hackley, Chris. "Auto‐ethnographic consumer research and creative non‐fiction." Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal 10, no. 1 (January 23, 2007): 98–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13522750710720422.

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Wiles, Ellen. "Three branches of literary anthropology: Sources, styles, subject matter." Ethnography 21, no. 2 (March 28, 2018): 280–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1466138118762958.

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‘What is literary anthropology?’ – a deceptively simple question, posed by anthropologist Paul Stoller – unleashes debate about the perceived identity of the field. Through the lens of three book reviews, this essay proposes conceptualizing literary anthropology as a central stem with three branches. The first is the use of literary texts as ethnographic source material, particularly for historical anthropologists. The second is the use of literary modes of writing ethnography, ranging from the incorporation of metaphorical language and the subversion of conventional ethnographic structures to the production of fiction as ethnography. The third is the anthropological examination of literary cultural and production practices. The third has been underexplored in the academy to date, the second has been at the centre of fierce controversy within the wider field of anthropology, while the first has arguably been limited by restrictive disciplinary and epistemological assumptions.

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Suvorov, Mikhail. "Otherworldly Beings in Modern Yemeni Ethnographic and Fiction Literature." Manuscripta Orientalia. International Journal for Oriental Manuscript Research 28, no. 1 (June 2022): 23–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.31250/1238-5018-2022-28-1-23-30.

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The society of Yemen, which in many respects retains its traditional features, is characterized, among other matters, by a strong belief it the existence of otherworldly beings, such as jinn, ghoul, ghost, werewolf, etc. This paper is intended to discuss to what extent and in what way this belief is manifested in the modern ethnographic and fiction literature of Yemen. Appropriate fragments of short stories, novels, memoir and scholarly works of Yemeni authors help to clarify what Yemenis think about the nomenclature of supernatural creatures, about their appearances, abilities, habits and “specializations” in contacts with humans, about their harm and their possible benefits for humans.

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Jacobson, Matt, and Soren C. Larsen. "Ethnographic fiction for writing and research in cultural geography." Journal of Cultural Geography 31, no. 2 (May 2, 2014): 179–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2014.906851.

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Basu, Srimati. "The Bleeding Edge: Resistance as Strength and Paralysis." Indian Journal of Gender Studies 7, no. 2 (September 2000): 185–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/097152150000700203.

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The study of feminism as a mark of feminist agency is examined across a range of feminist schol arship, followed by reflections on the concluding scene of Ashapurna Devi's novel in Bangla, Pratham Pratisruti, and ends with some conclusions based upon ethnographic work on Indian women and inheritance. The explorations of different sites of fiction and ethnography indicate that individual acts of women's resistance should be kept separate from the systemic changes that organised movements seek to effect.

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Coates, Jennifer. "Blurred Boundaries: Ethnofiction and Its Impact on Postwar Japanese Cinema." Arts 8, no. 1 (February 2, 2019): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts8010020.

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This article explores the use of ethnofiction, a technique emerging from the field of visual anthropology, which blends documentary and fiction filmmaking for ethnographic purposes. From Imamura Shōhei’s A Man Vanishes (Ningen jōhatsu, 1967) to Hou Hsiao Hsien’s Cafe Lumieré (Kōhi jikō, 2003), Japanese cinema, including Japan-set and Japan-associated cinema, has employed ethnofiction filmmaking techniques to alternately exploit and circumvent the structural barriers to filmmaking found in everyday life. Yet the dominant understanding in Japanese visual ethnography positions ethnofiction as an imported genre, reaching Japan through Jean Rouch and French cinema-verité. Blending visual analysis of Imamura and Hou’s ethnofiction films with an auto-ethnographic account of my own experience of four years of visual anthropology in Kansai, I interrogate the organizational barriers constructed around geographical perception and genre definition to argue for ethnofiction as a filmmaking technique that simultaneously emerged in French cinema-verité and Japanese feature filmmaking of the 1960s. Blurring the boundaries between Japanese, French, and East Asian co-production films, and between documentary and fiction genres, allows us to understand ethnofiction as a truly global innovation, with certain regional specificities.

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Hendriks, Maarten. "‘My Life is Like a Movie’: Making a Fiction Film as a Route to Knowledge Production on Gang Political Performances in Goma, DR Congo." Journal of Extreme Anthropology 3, no. 1 (June 6, 2019): 57–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.5617/jea.6695.

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‘My life is like a movie’ is a sentence that often surfaced during my fieldwork on gangs engaged in everyday policing in the city of Goma (Democratic Republic of Congo); referring to the martial arts and action movies they like to watch. For this article, I will reflect on how during my ethnographic research I ended up making the fiction film Street Life together with the Congolese filmmaker TD Jack, the gang leader Alino and his group Rich Gang. The paper explores the making of Street Life as a route to knowledge production on the political performances of gangs seeking to carve out a space for themselves in Goma’s urban policing environment. Broadly, two issues are dealt with. Firstly, I analyze how gangs’ everyday political performances are re-enacted and actively mirrored in the film. Secondly, I reflect on how making a fiction with gangs changed my way of dealing with ethnography: in terms of method, my positionality in the field, and ethnographic representation. The paper is also a call for taking the visual – and by extension other senses – more seriously. Not just by writing about sensory experiences, but by incorporating them in our academic work. Sometimes it is better to just let people see it!

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Benedict, Marion. "Fact Versus Fiction: An Ethnographic Paradox Set in the Seychelles." Anthropology Today 1, no. 5 (October 1985): 21. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3032825.

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Gerla, Jacqueline Parten. "An Uncommon Friendship: Ethnographic Fiction Around Finance Equity in Texas." Qualitative Inquiry 1, no. 2 (June 1995): 168–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107780049500100202.

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Reed, Adam. "Henry and I: An Ethnographic Account of Men's Fiction Reading." Ethnos 67, no. 2 (January 2002): 181–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00141840220136819.

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Behar, Ruth. "Yellow marigolds for Ochun: An experiment in feminist ethnographic fiction." International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 14, no. 2 (March 2001): 107–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09518390010023630.

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Elliott, Denielle. "Truth, Shame, Complicity, and Flirtation: An Unconventional, Ethnographic (Non)fiction." Anthropology and Humanism 39, no. 2 (December 2014): 145–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/anhu.12052.

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Roseman, Sharon R. "A Documentary Fiction and Ethnographic Production: An Analysis ofSherman's March." Cultural Anthropology 6, no. 4 (November 1991): 505–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/can.1991.6.4.02a00040.

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Chung, Rita Chi-Ying, and Fred Bemak. "Use of Ethnographic Fiction in Social Justice Graduate Counselor Training." Counselor Education and Supervision 52, no. 1 (February 25, 2013): 56–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.1556-6978.2013.00028.x.

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Barnes, Leslie. "Cinema as Cultural Translation: The Production of Vietnam in Trẩn Anh Hùùng's Cyclo." Journal of Vietnamese Studies 5, no. 3 (2010): 106–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/vs.2010.5.3.106.

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This article examines Trẩn Anh Hùng's Cyclo (1995) as a work of cinematic autoethnography, that is, as a record of Vietnamese culture reflected not in the "objective" detailing of behavior but in a creative assemblage, or montage, of cultural codes. After addressing the question of fiction and ethnography, I examine the film's formal translation of the verbal and nonverbal signs that traditional ethnographic approaches would conserve in written form. By encouraging confusion and ongoing creative recombination, Trẩn Anh Hùùng's film questions not only the possibility of a faithful rendering of one's culture, but the very existence of an original to be rendered.

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Lustig, Joshua. "Modern Epics." Current History 121, no. 831 (January 1, 2022): 39–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/curh.2022.121.831.39.

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A new novel about the 2015 surge of migration to Europe raises questions about whether fiction that draws on ethnographic methods can bring a uniquely intimate perspective to the relations between asylum seekers and the volunteers who try to help them.

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Nubia, Onyeka. "Decoding Early-Modern European Ethnography in the ‘Masque of Blackness’." European History Quarterly 53, no. 1 (January 2023): 32–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02656914221143663.

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The Masque of Blacknesse was a carnival—cavalcade of colour, — it was brash, bold and performed with swaggering pomposity in 1605. The Masque was written by Ben Jonson and staged by Inigo Jones. In it, the Queen of England, Anne of Denmark and her noble friends were painted Black and pretended to be the daughters of the River Niger (personified as a God King). This article unpicks the ethnographic themes in King Niger's speech where he extols the beauty of blacknesse. The author suggests that whilst early modern fiction may echo themes present in that society, it needs to be decoded and in some cases decolonised to decipher early modern ethnography.

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Jakimovska, Ilina. "The Writer as Anthropologist: Teaching Ethnography Through Literature." Teaching Anthropology 10, no. 2 (December 14, 2021): 56–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.22582/ta.v10i2.496.

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Literature and ethnographic writing have at least one thing in common - they are both about ‘putting things to paper’. As observed by Clifford Geertz in his Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author (Geertz, 1988), the concern with how ethnographic texts are constructed has for a long time been considered irrelevant, even ‘unanthropological’. As a consequence, important aspects concerning the style, imagery and metaphor of great anthropological works have not been included in the standard teaching curricula. This paper tries to see things from a reverse Geertz perspective: how can contemporary prose be used to expand ethnographic knowledge, as well as refresh the sometimes stale scientific discourse. The few chosen examples serve as illustrations of the great potential of fiction storytelling to challenge dominant modes of ethnographic writing, and to teach anthropological concepts and ideas.

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Reed, Adam. "Literature and Reading." Annual Review of Anthropology 47, no. 1 (October 21, 2018): 33–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102317-050223.

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This article examines anthropological approaches to fiction reading. It asks why the field of literary anthropology remains largely disinvested of ethnographic work on literary cultures and how that field might approach the study of literature and reading ethnographically. The issue of the creative agency of fiction readers is explored in the context of what it means to ask anthropological questions of literature, which includes the challenge of speaking back to dominant approaches grounded in forms of critical analysis. Finally, the article looks to recent work in the anthropology of Christianity on Bible reading and engagements with biblical characters to open up new questions about the relationship between fiction reading and temporal regimes.

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Banda, Maria Matildis. "Konstruksi Latar dalam Fiksi Etnografis Orang-Orang Oetimu." Stilistika : Journal of Indonesian Language and Literature 1, no. 1 (October 17, 2021): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.24843/stil.2021.v01.i01.p02.

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This paper examines the setting construction in the ethnographic fiction of Orang-Orang Oetimu by Felix K. Nesi. Analytical descriptive methods, oral tradition, narratology, and setting theory were used to answer questions about: colonial and decolonial settings, socio-educational, ethnographic, and military violence setting. The results depict that the colonial and decolonial grounds left scars on the nation, which experienced previous neglect and alienation in their land. This long-experienced trauma affects massive social, education, and military violence behaviors. In addition, colonial and decolonial history also intersects with ethnographic, mainly traditional beliefs about local history and myths about “sifon,” which is a tradition of having sex after circumcision. Unpredictable and irreversible patterns of colonial, decolonial, and ethnographic settings are also shockingly strengthening the plot, proofing that the well-constructed set produces quality and innovative story, narrative, and narrating.

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Widmer, Alexandra. "The Order of the Magic Lantern Slides." Commoning Ethnography 2, no. 1 (December 19, 2019): 52. http://dx.doi.org/10.26686/ce.v2i1.5269.

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Dr Sylvester Lambert, an American public health doctor who worked for the International Health Board of the Rockefeller Foundation, created a magic lantern slide presentation to retell the arrest of a sorcerer that he had witnessed in 1925 on the island of Malakula in Vanuatu. In this article, I use creative non-fiction to envision other audiences and narrators of this storied event to present an expanded picture of life for Pacific Islanders at that time. I also reflect on how particular events make for good stories because they are contests about belief and incredulity. Reimagining medical stories of sorcery reminds us that medicine is part of larger contests over the nature of reality. This is an imaginative ethnographic experiment with decolonizing intentions which combines archival research, ethnographic research, colonial images and creative non-fiction. It aspires to untie the images from a single fixed colonial narrative and to revisit the images in ways that are open to multiple interpretations, audiences, and narrators.

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Gray, Ross. "No Longer a Man: Using Ethnographic Fiction to Represent Life History Research." Auto/Biography 12, no. 1 (March 2004): 44–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/0967550704ab005oa.

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Hathaway, Rosemary V. "The Unbearable Weight of Authenticity: Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and a Theory of "Touristic Reading"." Journal of American Folklore 117, no. 464 (April 1, 2004): 168–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4137820.

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Abstract Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God is the focal point in this article for a discussion of "touristic reading," a process that occurs when a reader assumes a fictional text is an authentic and complete representation of its source culture. Although this can happen even when the ethnicity of the writer and reader match, the dynamic is often intensified when their ethnicities diff-that is, when readers read across ethnic (or other) boundaries. Folkloric content in fiction may make texts particularly vulnerable to such readings, but the presence of ethnographic material may also help undermine touristic readings, as evidenced by the resistant and subversive aspects of Hurston’s text.

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Mlačnik, Primož. "Kafka “Shanghai-Ed”: Orientalist China in Kafka’s Fiction and Kafkaesque Phenomena in China." European Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 5, no. 2 (May 31, 2019): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejis-2019.v5i2-283.

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During a visit to Shanghai in August 2019, I attempted to use the auto-ethnographic method to answer a few general questions: what is the image of China in Kafka’s literary imagination, what is Kafkaesque in Shanghai, and what is Shanghai-esque in Kafka? Because the combination of theoretical interest, spontaneous ethnographic observations, and personal reflections proved insufficient to respond to these questions, I also analyzed Kafka’s ‘Chinese’ stories, namely The Great Wall of China, In the Penal Colony, The Message from The Emperor, An Old Manuscript, and The Letters to Felice, and two Kafkaesque phenomena in China: the Shanghai World Expo and the Chinese Ghost Cities. I concluded that Kafka’s fiction contains certain Orientalist elements and that, through the perspective of contemporary material Kafkaesque phenomena, are more western than the West.

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Mlačnik, Primož. "Kafka “Shanghai-Ed”: Orientalist China in Kafka’s Fiction and Kafkaesque Phenomena in China." European Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 5, no. 2 (May 31, 2019): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejis.v5i2.p36-44.

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During a visit to Shanghai in August 2019, I attempted to use the auto-ethnographic method to answer a few general questions: what is the image of China in Kafka’s literary imagination, what is Kafkaesque in Shanghai, and what is Shanghai-esque in Kafka? Because the combination of theoretical interest, spontaneous ethnographic observations, and personal reflections proved insufficient to respond to these questions, I also analyzed Kafka’s ‘Chinese’ stories, namely The Great Wall of China, In the Penal Colony, The Message from The Emperor, An Old Manuscript, and The Letters to Felice, and two Kafkaesque phenomena in China: the Shanghai World Expo and the Chinese Ghost Cities. I concluded that Kafka’s fiction contains certain Orientalist elements and that, through the perspective of contemporary material Kafkaesque phenomena, are more western than the West.

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Niari, Maria, Anna Apostolidou, and Ivi Daskalaki. "Anthropological intersections between new reproductive technologies and new digital technologies." TECHNO REVIEW. International Technology, Science and Society Review 9, no. 1 (September 18, 2020): 49–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.37467/gka-revtechno.v9.2645.

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The digital turn in anthropology and ethnography is not a sudden rupture to the field’s epistemological quest. In recent years, after the visual turn and the evolution of Digital Humanities, there have been notable efforts to address the digital aspect of social reality by several anthropologists worldwide. However, the focus has been predominantly on the observation of internet cultures and communities, mainly tackling phenomena that ‘take place’ in the digital realm, and on the techniques and issues that arise from conducting online research with limited contributions to the theoretical ramifications of recent advancements on the technological front. We argue that the methodological repercussions of the discussion around digital ethnographic writing modalities has not yet been adequately addressed, which reflects a wider tendency of the anthropological lens to remain on the “observant” side of things and not partake in the active discussion and practices regarding knowledge production and representation. Drawing on the research project “Ethnography and/as hypertext fiction: representing surrogate motherhood” (HYFRESMO), currently implemented at the Anthropology Department of Panteion University and funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation & the General Secretariat for Research and Technology, the paper seeks to provide an example of the creative accommodation of digital media in the field of anthropology. In order to do so, it focuses on the intersections between the object of study (new reproductive technologies) and the writing tropes made available by new digital technologies. After conducting ‘traditional’ physical fieldwork on surrogate motherhood, and combining offline and online observation and communication with research interlocutors, our methodological proposition does not aspire to radicalize the work already implemented by fellow anthropologists in the direction of data gathering or performing participant observation in the digital/cyber-sphere; rather, in our endeavor to create a transmedia, non-text-oriented, fictional ethnographic account (during but mainly after) the fieldwork experience, we propose that digital ethnographic representation becomes a very privileged under-researched terrain upon which to experiment on the transformative potential of the digital turn in the humanities and creatively tie together the research topics and their representational potentials.

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Burykin, Aleksey A. "Древности и этнографические реалии Монголии в описании путешествий И. А. Ефремова («Дорога ветров», 1955)." Бюллетень Калмыцкого научного центра Российской академии наук 16, no. 4 (November 27, 2020): 130–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.22162/2587-6503-2020-4-16-130-148.

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Introduction. I. A. Efremov (1907–1972) known as the science-fiction writer was first of all a prominent geoscientist and palaeonthologist. Goal. The goal of the article is to analyze the descriptions of antiquities and ethnographic descriptions of Mongolia in I. A. Efremov’s book “The Road of Winds” (1955), that represents the edited notes of the scientist’s paleonthological expeditions and travels in Mongolia in 1946, 1948 and 1949. Results. I. A. Efremov in his book follows the established tradition of the descriptions of travels along the steppes, mountains and deserts. The book contains the description of the old Ulan-Bator, Khangai Mountains, the characteristics of the roads in Mongolia in their conditions and historical perspective, the recordings of the anthropological and archaeological findings. The different observations of the scientist related to the Mongolian ethnography are of great value, the author often points out the cultural phenomena that were not found in ethnographic research. I. A. Efremov’s travel notes were influenced by the way of traveling in the country (during the expeditions people traveled by trucks) as well as the time of reorganization of the economy, culture and lifestyle in Mongolia.

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Hoffman, Danny, and Mohammed Tarawalley. "Frontline collaborations: The research relationship in unstable places." Ethnography 15, no. 3 (August 20, 2014): 291–310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1466138114533463.

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The stereotype of the ethnographic research assistant as marginal figure, ‘inside’ enough to facilitate access but ‘outside’ enough to broker worlds of understanding, has likely always been a fiction. But as qualitative researchers increasingly focus on unfolding events in unstable places, research collaborators are even less likely to be the ambiguous figures of legend. To conduct research in violent environments, researchers often find that they must rely on individuals who are central to the unfolding story of conflict. This piece explores the implications of one such relationship. In the exchange recorded here we examine what it means for ethnographers and participant/research assistants to collaborate on a project of ‘frontline’ anthropology. Through our own experiences during and after the war in Sierra Leone and Liberia, we focus on the ethics of ethnographic access and the problems associated with constructing ethnographic histories.

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Taylor, Katie Jane. "Adopting Agile software development: the project manager experience." Information Technology & People 29, no. 4 (November 7, 2016): 670–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/itp-02-2014-0031.

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Purpose Early research into Agile approaches explored particular practices or quantified improvements in code production. Less well researched is how Agile teams are managed. The project manager (PM) role is traditionally one of “command and control” but Agile methods require a more facilitative approach. How this changing role plays out in practice is not yet clearly understood. The purpose of this paper is to provide insight into how adopting Agile techniques shape the working practices of PMs and critically reflect on some of the tensions that arise. Design/methodology/approach An ethnographic approach was used to surface a richer understanding of the issues and tensions faced by PMs as Agile methods are introduced. Ethnographic fiction conveys the story to a wider audience. Findings Agile approaches shift responsibility and spread expert knowledge seeming to undermine the traditional PM function. However, the findings here show various scenarios that allow PMs to wrest control and become more of a “gate-keeper”. Ethnographic fiction communicates a sense of the PMs frustration with the conflict between the need to control and the desire for teams to take more responsibility. Originality/value Stories provide insight and communicate the experiential feel behind issues faced by PMs adopting Agile to surface useful knowledge. The objective is not how to measure knowledge, but how to recognize it. These reflections are valuable to fellow researchers as well as practitioners and contribute to the growing literature on Agile project management.

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Kennon, Raquel. "“In de Affica Soil”: Slavery, Ethnography, and Recovery in Zora Neale Hurston’sBarracoon: The Story of the “Last Black Cargo”." MELUS 46, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 75–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlab003.

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AbstractI explore the relationship between Hurston as ethnographer and Kossola as subject in Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo,” posthumously published in 2018 but extant since 1931. Barracoon reveals how Hurston wrestles with her dual identity as fiction writer and cultural anthropologist as it crafts a narrative of slavery and liberation around conjured memory and the ethnographic relationship. The essay considers how Hurston harnesses her rhetorical powers to convince Kossola to share recollections of his life “in Affica soil,” and examines how the themes of loss and recovery emerge in Hurston’s recording of Kossola’s narrative of capture, enslavement, and free life in Africatown, the construction of an archive of transatlantic slavery, and the extraliterary narrative of Alice Walker’s reclamation of Hurston’s own voice into the canon.

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Ginsburg, Faye. "Decolonizing Documentary On-Screen and Off: Sensory Ethnography and the Aesthetics of Accountability." Film Quarterly 72, no. 1 (2018): 39–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fq.2018.72.1.39.

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Over the last decade, ethnographic documentary has evolved in two notable directions, reflecting an ongoing dialectic in the field regarding the on and off-screen possibilities of this work. The “sensory ethnography” films that have emerged from Harvard's Sensory Ethnography Lab are paradigm-shifting works have emphasized the immersive and experiential as strategies of formal experimentation in the field of nonfiction filmmaking. Elsewhere, documentaries and ethno-fiction works are being made that are innovative in terms of their emphasis on the collaborative relationships with the people who are the subjects of their works, and their concerns with accountability that are evident both off and on-screen. Ginsburg suggests that their connective tissue might be understood as constituting a form of “relational documentary” built on a robust sense of aesthetics of accountability as an alternative site of filmic innovation, with considered ethical concerns regarding the people whose lives are represented in the works.

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Fernández, Richard Jorge. "Guilt, Greed and Remorse: Manifestations of the Anglo-Irish Other in J. S. Le Fanu’s “Madame Crowl’s Ghost” and “Green Tea”." Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies 42, no. 2 (December 23, 2020): 233–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.28914/atlantis-2020-42.2.12.

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Monsters and the idea of monstrosity are central tenets of Gothic fiction. Such figures as vampires and werewolves have been extensively used to represent the menacing Other in an overtly physical way, identifying the colonial Other as the main threat to civilised British society. However, this physically threatening monster evolved, in later manifestations of the genre, into a more psychological, mind-threatening being and, thus, werewolves were left behind in exchange for psychological fear. In Ireland, however, this change implied a further step. Traditional ethnographic divisions have tended towards the dichotomy Anglo-Irish coloniser versus Catholic colonised, and early examples of Irish Gothic fiction displayed the latter as the monstrous Other. However, the nineteenth century witnessed a move forward in the development of the genre in Ireland. This article shows how the change from physical to psychological threat implies a transformation or, rather, a displacement—the monstrous Other ceases to be Catholic to instead become an Anglo-Irish manifestation. To do so, this study considers the later short fictions of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and analyses how theDublin-born writer conveys his postcolonial concerns over his own class by depicting them simultaneously as the causers of and sufferers from their own colonial misdeeds.

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Dourish, Paul, and Edgar Gómez Cruz. "Datafication and data fiction: Narrating data and narrating with data." Big Data & Society 5, no. 2 (July 2018): 205395171878408. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2053951718784083.

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Data do not speak for themselves. Data must be narrated—put to work in particular contexts, sunk into narratives that give them shape and meaning, and mobilized as part of broader processes of interpretation and meaning-making. We examine these processes through the lens of ethnographic practice and, in particular, ethnography’s attention to narrative processes. We draw on a particular case in which digital data must be animated and narrated by different groups in order to examine broader questions of how we might come to understand data ethnographically.

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Sozina, Elena Konstantinovna. "“BETWEEN EUROPE AND ASIA.” ORIENTALIST NARRATIVES OF ALEXANDRA FUCHS: THE RHETORIC OF WRITING AND THE AUTHOR’S POSITION." Yearbook of Finno-Ugric Studies 14, no. 3 (October 2, 2020): 465–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.35634/2224-9443-2020-14-3-465-475.

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The article discusses ethnographic essays and novellas in the poems by Alexandra Andreevna Fuchs. The wife of a famous professor Karl Fuchs, she was resident of Kazan, hosted a literary salon, which was frequented by many local and visiting writers and poets, and met with Alexander Pushkin during his stay in the town. Alexandra Fuchs became the first Russian ethnographer writer; she purposefully traveled to places where the Chuvash, Mari (Cheremis), and Udmurts (Votyaks) lived, and wrote essays about the life, daily routine, manners and customs of these peoples drawing on her personal observations. Her essays took the form of letters and were often accompanied by response letters from her husband. They were published in the Kazan magazine Zavolzhsky Muravey [Zavolzhsky Ant], in the regional newspaper Kazanskie gubernskie vedomosti [Kazan Provincial Gazette], as well as in a number of separate books. The article analyzes the rhetorical peculiarities and author’s position of Alexandra Fuks’ essay writing. The analysis also involves ethnographic-fiction novellas (poems) by A. Fuchs, taken, according to her, “from the Tatar tradition”: ‘Princess Habiba’, ‘Founding of the city of Kazan’, a comment to which was written by her husband. These works fit into the tradition of the “Eastern novella”, popular in Russia since the eighteenth century. Depicting the exotic life of ancient Tatars and the peoples neighboring Kazan, Alexandra Fuchs sought to reconcile the orientation of the region to the East with the Orthodox-Imperial ideology which (in her view) was more advanced and progressive. Her sympathies as the author lay with female characters who contradicted traditional Muslim customs. Alexandra Fuchs’ essays and tales played a considerable role in awakening the interest of a Russian reader to the peoples of the empire, which preceded the mid-19th century rise of ethnography in science and literature.

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Álvarez Veinguer, Aurora, Rocío García Soto, and Dario Ranocchiari. "“Ya no estás sola”: tramas, personajes y guiones. Experimentaciones con la ficción radiofónica desde la etnografía colaborativa." Empiria. Revista de metodología de ciencias sociales, no. 57 (January 9, 2023): 123–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/empiria.57.2023.36432.

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El propósito del presente artículo es reflexionar sobre una experiencia de escritura etnográfica de ficción que hicimos mientras hacíamos investigación colaborativa. Mediante un ejercicio de memoria, imaginación e investigación hemos creado un producto de ficción sonora junto a un colectivo social que lucha por el acceso a una vivienda digna: Stop Desahucios Granada 15M. Partiendo de la materialidad de uno de los guiones que forman parte de nuestro producto de ficción sonora, la radionovela, pretendemos en primer lugar mostrar de qué forma hemos elaborado los seis episodios de la serie, construyendo antes tramas y personajes, y después los diálogos. En segundo lugar hablaremos de los aspectos más performativos, de transgresión del guion, que hemos experimentado durante las grabaciones. En tercer lugar abordaremos dos “mutaciones” en las formas de hacer y presentar la etnografía que ha generado el despliegue colaborativo de estrategias de investigación basadas en la construcción de guiones de ficción sonora. Y por último plantearemos por qué consideramos que la elaboración de guiones de ficción han sido un elemento central de nuestra etnografía colaborativa. The purpose of this paper is to reflect on an experience of fictional ethnographic writing that we made while doing collaborative research. Through an exercise of memory, imagination and investigation, we created a radio fiction series together with a social movement that fights for the right to decent housing: Stop Desahucios Granada 15M. Starting from the materiality of one of the scripts that form part of our series, a radio soap opera, we want to show how we jointly wrote the six episodes of the series by constructing first the plots and characters, and after the dialogues. Secondly, we’ll reflect on the performative aspects of the production process, in which we transgressed the scripts. Thirdly, we will address two ‘mutations’ that the collaborative framework of our fiction-based research had generated in our way of doing and communicate ethnography. And finally, we’ll explain the reasons why we consider the writing of the scripts as a central element of our collaborative ethnography.

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Castanheira, Maria Lucia, and Juliana Santos. "‘Culture as a Verb’ and ‘Otherness’: Reflections on Conceptual Threads from Brian Street’s Early Writing." Teaching Anthropology 11, no. 1 (February 22, 2022): 41–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.22582/ta.v11i1.661.

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This text re-examines the early and ongoing work of Brian Street and highlights the lasting relevance of Street’s analysis of “ethnographic novels” presented in the book The Savage in Literature: Representations of ‘primitive’ society in English fiction 1858-1920. First, it presents an overview of Street’s analysis of representations of ‘primitive society’ in “ethnographic novels”, then, it identifies two conceptual threads – ‘culture as a verb’ and ‘otherness’ –, whose roots can be found in this book, and that Street continued to develop throughout his academic career. The paper argues that Street’s early work speaks directly to those concerned today with examining power relationships in colonial and post-colonial contexts. [Content warning: this article contains discussion of historical terms related to scientific racism from 19th and early 20th century literature]

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N, Rathnakumar. "Biographies of the Kuravars in Tamil Novels." International Research Journal of Tamil 4, no. 2 (February 7, 2022): 21–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.34256/irjt2223.

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Although realist novels in Tamil are largely colossal (Panjum Pasiyum, Malarum Sarugum, Thaagam) there is very little room for the minority race and are included in some parts of the novel. After the year of Two thousand, translation novels (Marathi) about tribes such as Lakshman Keikwat's Uchalia, Lakshman Mane's Upara, and Chandabai Kale's Kulathi changed the course of Tamil novels. The unbridled ethnographic biographies presented by these novels set the stage for other marginalized ethnic groups to come out of fiction, as well as the expansive boundaries of the Dalit novels. It is to be welcomed that the trend of writing novels focusing on the biographies of the Tamil ‘Kuravargal’ has developed in the Tamil context. Their cultural movements, such as the beliefs, rituals, diets, cults, habitat, and occupational crises of ethnic minorities, have begun to feature in recent narratives. In particular, Pandiyakkannan's novels Salavan, Malaipparai and Nugathadi can be read as doco- fictions. This article summarizes the center, format, and commentary of the novels.

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