The watermelon
This semi-fictional short story departs from the epistemological premise that knowledge on feelings should be explored in the complex accumulation of people’s transformative lives and locates these experiences in a dynamic social context of globalising and multicultural imaginative worlds. By doing...
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doaj-c5741f7c055b4689be1ec0f5fbba64d22020-11-25T01:44:26ZengUniversity of BucharestJournal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology2068-03172068-03172014-12-0152718The watermelonEva van Roekel Cordiviola0Utrecht University, NetherlandsThis semi-fictional short story departs from the epistemological premise that knowledge on feelings should be explored in the complex accumulation of people’s transformative lives and locates these experiences in a dynamic social context of globalising and multicultural imaginative worlds. By doing so, it indirectly explores the boundaries between ethnography and fiction and suggest in-depth insights in the cultural dynamics of people’s feelings at a particular time and place. Through this intimate convergence of ethnography and fiction, where the narrator’s imagination thoughtfully follows situated cultural logics, the semi-fictional story evokes Juan Gabriel’s feelings of guilt and loss in a righteous and inclusive sense.http://compaso.eu/wpd/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Compaso2014-52-van-Roekel-Cordiviola.pdfEthnographyfeelingsfiction |
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This semi-fictional short story departs from the epistemological premise that knowledge on feelings should be explored in the complex accumulation of people’s transformative lives and locates these experiences in a dynamic social context of globalising and multicultural imaginative worlds. By doing so, it indirectly explores the boundaries between ethnography and fiction and suggest in-depth insights in the cultural dynamics of people’s feelings at a particular time and place. Through this intimate convergence of ethnography and fiction, where the narrator’s imagination thoughtfully follows situated cultural logics, the semi-fictional story evokes Juan Gabriel’s feelings of guilt and loss in a righteous and inclusive sense. |
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