How Long to Read Friends, Brothers, and Informants

How Long Does it Take to Read Friends, Brothers, and Informants?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 20 minutes to read Friends, Brothers, and Informants by Nita Kumar

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

"Why was Banaras such a mystery to me when I arrived in 1981? Was it ironically because I was an Indian and expected to have a privileged insight into it?" In this unusually personal, evocative account of her fieldwork experiences, Kumar tackles the dilemma of how a Western-trained Indian intellectual adapts to the field and builds deeply affecting relationships with strangers. She discloses what it is like to be a native researching her own culture, offering her fieldwork memoirs in all their spontaneity and candor. We see Banaras through her eyes when she first arrives: throngs of people, cramped and dark lodgings, unappetizing food, mischievous monkeys, and almost overwhelming filth. But as she establishes friendships, we are treated to her discoveries not only about the city and its people, but also about her place in this society. The familiar problems that face most anthropologists conducting fieldwork—of Self versus Other, objectivity versus bias, familiar circumstances versus new and dismaying ones—are given a surprising and complex dimension. Through a narration of her own experiences, the author demonstrates how personal locations—habits, preferences, expectations deriving from childhood memories, and areas of ignorance—impose themselves on the process of selection, observation, and interpretation in research.

How long is Friends, Brothers, and Informants?

Friends, Brothers, and Informants by Nita Kumar is 260 pages long, and a total of 65,000 words.

This makes it 88% the length of the average book. It also has 79% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Friends, Brothers, and Informants Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 55 minutes to read Friends, Brothers, and Informants aloud.

What Reading Level is Friends, Brothers, and Informants?

Friends, Brothers, and Informants is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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