https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/how-the-anthropologist-learned-to-tell-stories/ Purveyors of fine poetry since 2003. Sun, 23 Sep 2012 21:19:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/how-the-anthropologist-learned-to-tell-stories/#comment-1967 Tue, 02 Oct 2007 03:16:43 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/14/how-the-anthropologist-learned-to-tell-stories/#comment-1967 […] How the anthropologist learned to tell stories The natives are getting restless at the poor quality of the anthropologist’s stories. In all his years of schooling, he never stopped to consider how difficult the informant’s job might be: anthropologist and informant were two very different things, he’d thought. But in Imbonggu society, one listens in order to learn how to embroider. And if he wants to hear their stories, he has to tell some of his own. That’s how it works. […]

]]> https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/how-the-anthropologist-learned-to-tell-stories/#comment-1966 Fri, 15 Sep 2006 18:53:56 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/14/how-the-anthropologist-learned-to-tell-stories/#comment-1966 That’s cool. Glad y’all liked it.

]]> https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/how-the-anthropologist-learned-to-tell-stories/#comment-1965 Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:51:53 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/14/how-the-anthropologist-learned-to-tell-stories/#comment-1965 Dave — read this aloud to the family last night, delighting them all.

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