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Ethnography/Memoir/Imagination/Story
Author(s) -
Stoller Paul
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
anthropology and humanism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1548-1409
pISSN - 1559-9167
DOI - 10.1525/ahu.2007.32.2.178
Subject(s) - ethnography , memoir , obligation , sociology , aesthetics , anthropology , epistemology , literature , art , philosophy , political science , law
Anthropologists have long followed sinuous paths that have crisscrossed many geographical and analytical spaces. In this article, the author, who has been wandering anthropological byways for more than 30 years, considers the myriad ways one can represent anthropological experience. In so doing, he concludes that no matter the direction of one's anthropological path, anthropologists, in the end, are charged with telling stories that speak to the most human of things: fear, pain, love, fate, and humor. That, he argues, is our scholarly obligation. That, he suggests, is our legacy.