{"product_id":"return-to-storytelling-karen-stocker-9781049807911","title":"Return to Storytelling: An Inverted Ethnography","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\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Karen Stocker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 104980791X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781049807911\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Karen Stocker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49084099330303,"sku":"9781049807911","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/return-to-storytelling-karen-stocker-9781049807911","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}