{"product_id":"return-to-storytelling","title":"Return to Storytelling","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReturn to Storytelling\u003c\/em\u003e is a lyrical ethnographic work that presents stories from healers, community members, storytellers, witches, sceptics, and tricksters in an intentionally unnamed Central American Indigenous community. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnthropologist Karen Stocker investigates how stories of all kinds – written historical accounts, stories told within the community, and stories familiar to readers from North American backgrounds – shape people’s frameworks for interpreting both the everyday and the extraordinary. Stocker interrogates history as portrayed in sixteenth-century chronicles and upends scholarly writing styles in favour of the verbal artistry characteristic of the community as well as the Latin American magical realist genre. Thus, \u003cem\u003eReturn to Storytelling\u003c\/em\u003e constitutes an inverted ethnography that prioritizes community collective memory over colonizers’ accounts, and privileges critical insight conveyed in accessible language over jargon-laden writing. At the same time, it remains grounded in sound, long-term ethnographic research and ultimately urges readers to question how they know what they know. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy refusing clear distinctions between scholarly voice and storytelling, past and present, or belief and scepticism, this book invites readers to sit with ambiguity as a productive space of knowledge. It offers not only a rethinking of ethnographic practice but also a broader meditation on storytelling as a political, ethical, and imaginative force that continues to shape lives long after colonial encounters.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57503863144821,"sku":"9781049807911","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781049807911.jpg?v=1786867648","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/return-to-storytelling","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}