The watermelon
Journal Title: Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology - Year 2014, Vol 5, Issue 2
Abstract
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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Eva van Roekel Cordiviola
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