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Cultural Studies Volume 2, Issue 3

Since the earliest days of anthropology, ethnographers have tried to incorporate theexperience of the researched through biography. This is reflected in the range of writingsabout individual Indians, the study of whose cultures has long been at the heart ofethnography. But biographies have always been marginal to cultural analysis, persistingas interesting documentation of individual memories, feelings, and beliefs. Unlikelanguage, kinship systems, or social structure, narrative has not been valued as a sourceof scholarly analysis or as the lived experience of collectively constructed cultures.

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