{"product_id":"storytime-in-india-wedding-songs-victorian-tales-and-the-ethnographic-experience-hardback-9780253041623","title":"Storytime in India; Wedding Songs, Victorian Tales, and the Ethnographic Experience (Hardback) 9780253041623","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eStorytime in India\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWedding Songs, Victorian Tales, and the Ethnographic Experience\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHelen Priscilla Myers (Author), Umesh Chandra Pandey (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253041623\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 14 June 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e544 pages, 1 b\u0026amp;w illus, 1 map\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 3.9 cm, 0.989 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eStories are the backbone of ethnographic research. During fieldwork, subjects describe their lives through stories. Afterward ethnographers come home from their journeys with stories of their own about their experiences in the field. \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStorytime in India\u003c\/i\u003e is an exploration of the stories that come out of ethnographic fieldwork. Helen Priscilla Myers and Umesh Chandra Pandey examine the ways in which their research collecting Bhojpuri wedding songs became interwoven with the stories of their lives, their work together, and their shared experience reading \u003ci\u003eThe Eustace Diamonds\u003c\/i\u003e by Anthony Trollope. Moving through these intertwined stories, the reader learns about the complete Bhojpuri wedding tradition through songs sung by Gangajali and access to the original song recordings and their translations. In the interludes, Pandey reads and interprets \u003ci\u003eThe Eustace Diamonds\u003c\/i\u003e, confronting the reader with the ever-present influence of colonialism, both in India and in ethnographic fieldwork. Interwoven throughout are stories of the everyday, highlighting the ups and downs of the ethnographic experience.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStorytime in India\u003c\/i\u003e combines the style of the Victorian novel with the structure of traditional Indian village tales, in which stories are told within stories. This book questions how we can and should present ethnography as well as what we really learn in the field. As Myers and Pandey ultimately conclude, writers of scholarly books are storytellers themselves and scholarly books are a form of art, just like the traditions they study.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e List of Songs and Accessing the Audio Files\u003cbr\u003e Prologue\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Umesh Explains Storytime\u003cbr\u003e 1. A Fulbright Grant to Banaras, India\u003cbr\u003e 2. Toast\u003cbr\u003e Interlude I: Lizzy Greystock\u003cbr\u003e 3. Setting Up Our Apartment in Banaras, 2007\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Daily Routine\u003cbr\u003e Interlude II: Sir Florian\u003cbr\u003e 5. Arranging an Indian Wedding \u003cbr\u003e 6. The Search for a Boy \u003cbr\u003e 7. Helen and Umesh Meet\u003cbr\u003e 8. Viewing the Bride\u003cbr\u003e 9. The \u003ci\u003eTilak\u003c\/i\u003e Talk Begins\u003cbr\u003e 10. Gangajali\u003cbr\u003e 11. The \u003ci\u003eTilak\u003c\/i\u003e, Explained by Umesh\u003cbr\u003e 12. Song Journey\u003cbr\u003e 13. \u003ci\u003eTilak\u003c\/i\u003e Songs\u003cbr\u003e 14. \"Dress Him in a Bra and Bodice\": \u003ci\u003eGali\u003c\/i\u003e for the \u003ci\u003eTilak\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 15. The Songs Become Personal\u003cbr\u003e 16. \"We Sell Dreams\"\u003cbr\u003e 17. \u003ci\u003eSaguni\u003c\/i\u003e Songs: \"This night is ours\"\u003cbr\u003e Interlude III: Lady Eustace\u003cbr\u003e 18. Umesh Remembers Charlotte Wiser\u003cbr\u003e 19. \u003ci\u003eMatikor: \u003c\/i\u003eSashi Interrupts, but We Do Not Hear \"A Mare Has Pissed\"\u003cbr\u003e 20. Helen's Pounding Pot\u003cbr\u003e 21. Umesh Explains \u003ci\u003eGali\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Interlude IV. Lucy Morris \u003cbr\u003e 22. The \u003ci\u003eKalas\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eHarish\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 23. Arranging a Priest\u003cbr\u003e 24. Wedding Expenses\u003cbr\u003e 25. The Island Diaspora: My Introduction to Indian Culture from Far Away\u003cbr\u003e Interlude V: Frank Greystock\u003cbr\u003e 26. Grannie Music\u003cbr\u003e 27. Ethnomusicology\u003cbr\u003e 28. The Turmeric Is Pleasing\u003cbr\u003e Interlude VI: The Eustace Necklace\u003cbr\u003e 29. Heat \u003cbr\u003e 30. Kissing\u003cbr\u003e 31. The Bride and Groom go to the \u003ci\u003eKohabar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 32. \u003ci\u003eSahana\u003c\/i\u003e Songs before the Wedding Ritual: The Blue Blue Horse\u003cbr\u003e 33. Umesh Tells the Krishna Story\u003cbr\u003e Interlude VII: Lady Linlithgow's Mission, , The Sawab of Mygawb\u003cbr\u003e 34. And Love\u003cbr\u003e 35. Kabir\u003cbr\u003e 36. Great Novels and Lesser Novels\u003cbr\u003e 37. Trapping the Family Gods \u003cbr\u003e Interlude VIII: Mr. Burke's Speeches\u003cbr\u003e 38. Helen Contracts Typhoid\u003cbr\u003e 39. Getting the \u003ci\u003eSiri\u003c\/i\u003e at the Home of the Potter\u003cbr\u003e 40. My Husband Is the Inspector of Police\u003cbr\u003e Interlude IX: The Conquering Hero Comes\u003cbr\u003e 41. The Evil Eye\u003cbr\u003e 42. Umesh Gets Malaria\u003cbr\u003e 43. On the Stage, the Bridegroom Puts on His Garments\u003cbr\u003e 44. Preparing for Winter\u003cbr\u003e 45. Adorn the Elephant, Adorn the Horse\u003cbr\u003e 46. The \u003ci\u003eJaluaa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 47. The Story of Krishna and the Crocodile: A Song with Many Many Stories\u003cbr\u003e 48. Umesh Tells the Remainder of the Krishna Story\u003cbr\u003e 49. More \u003ci\u003eJaluaa\u003c\/i\u003e Songs and Stories\u003cbr\u003e Interlude X: Showing What the Miss Fawns Said, and What Mrs. Hittaway Thought\u003cbr\u003e 50. Charlotte Wiser Leaves Karimganj\u003cbr\u003e 51. Wedding Night\u003cbr\u003e 52. Mona's \u003ci\u003eNacchu Nahawan\u003c\/i\u003e in Rasalpur\u003cbr\u003e 53. Protecting the Bride from the Evil Eye\u003cbr\u003e Interlude XI: Lizzie and Her Lover\u003cbr\u003e 54. Arrival at the \u003ci\u003eJanmassa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 55. \u003ci\u003eGali\u003c\/i\u003e for \u003ci\u003eBarati\u003c\/i\u003e People and Bridegroom\u003cbr\u003e 56. What about Clothes and Ornaments\u003cbr\u003e 57. Bhajan Interlude\u003cbr\u003e Interlude XII: Lord Fawn at His Office\u003cbr\u003e 58. Umesh Recalls His Wedding\u003cbr\u003e 59. Feeding the Wedding Party\u003cbr\u003e 60. Dwar Puja—The New System\u003cbr\u003e 61. The Animal Party\u003cbr\u003e 62. Departure of the \u003ci\u003eBarat\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Interlude XIII: I Only Thought of It\u003cbr\u003e 63. The Bridegroom Enters the Courtyard\u003cbr\u003e 64. The Bride Enters the Courtyard\u003cbr\u003e 65. Donation of the Virgin Daughter\u003cbr\u003e 66. Ceremony of the Puffed Rice\u003cbr\u003e 67. The \u003ci\u003eSindur\u003c\/i\u003e Ritual\u003cbr\u003e 68. The \u003ci\u003eKohabar\u003c\/i\u003e Ritual\u003cbr\u003e 69. Ceremony at the Ganges\u003cbr\u003e Interlude XIV: Showing What Frank Greystock Did\u003cbr\u003e 70. Arrival of the Bride in her \u003ci\u003eSasural\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eGauna\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 71. Love Marriages\u003cbr\u003e 72. Five Days\u003cbr\u003e 73. Just One More Song\u003cbr\u003e 74. Gangajali's Story\u003cbr\u003e Interlude XV: \"Doan't Thou Marry for Munny\"\u003cbr\u003e 75. One Last Song\u003cbr\u003e Interlude XVI: I'll Give You a Hundred Guinea Broach\u003cbr\u003e 76. Preparing for China\u003cbr\u003e 77. Leaving Banaras in 2008\u003cbr\u003e 78. Conclusion \u003cbr\u003e Interlude XVII: The Eustace Diamonds\u003cbr\u003e 79. Umesh Tells a Story from Karimganj \u003cbr\u003e 80. A Passage to India\u003cbr\u003e 81. Bangles in Ballia\u003cbr\u003e 82. Across the Seven Seas\u003cbr\u003e 83. Umesh Arranges for the Swan's Quill\u003cbr\u003e 84. The Religion of Humanity\u003cbr\u003e 85. Storytime\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Rituals of the Hindu Wedding in Ballia\u003cbr\u003e Glossary\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52525233439000,"sku":"9780253041623","price":67.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/storytime-in-india-wedding-songs-victorian-tales-and-the-ethnographic-experience-hardback-9780253041623","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}