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Winner The winner of the first annual Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic
Writing is Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels: Folk Narrative in
Hindu Religious Teaching (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989) by
Kirin Narayan. As a ‘native’ anthropologist, Narayan recalls the tales
she heard in her childhood. By including herself in the account and
talking about her relationship to a crusty storyteller, Narayan produces
a beautifully written and solid ethnography. Contributing importantly to
Indian ethnography, Narayan expertly allows readers to listen to Indian
voices as well as the voice of the anthropologist. Honorable Mentions Barbara Bode, No Bells to Toll: Destruction and Creation in the Andes. Scribner, 1990. Bode’s ethnography examines Peruvians’ social and religious reactions to one of the most devastating earthquakes in the Western Hemisphere. Suggesting that the earthquake and subsequent avalanche sparked major social and religious changes in the community, Bode humanely and compassionately tells stories of people’s experiences with uncontrollable events. Michael Jackson, Paths Toward a Clearing: Radical Empiricism and Ethnographic Inquiry. Indiana University Press, 1989. Jackson argues for the use of both radical empiricism and subjective experience in understanding people’s lives. Dorinne Kondo, Crafting Selves: Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace, University of California Press, 1990. Kondo explores the dynamics of gender, discourse and work, producing a nuanced and multidimensional account of the construction of identity. Smadar Lavie, The Poetics of Military Occupation: Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity: Under Israeli and Egyptian Rule University of California Press, 1990. Lavie movingly tells how the Bedouin resist occupation and maintain group cohesion through the use of storytelling and allegory. Return to Society for Humanistic Anthropology Page
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