Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Section I Interrogating and Framing Reality: Identity and Cultural Perceptions -- 1 Old and New Technologies of Asynchronous Communication: Virtual Narratives and "Presence"--2 Onitsha Market Literature: Narrating Identity and Survival in a Colonial African City -- 3 Narrative Identities in India's Global Age -- 4 Narrative Text and Photographs: A Case for Ethnographic Research Poetry -- Section I Summary An Author Conversation -- Section II Narratives at the Intersection of the Public and Private -- 5 Finding Story in Unexpected Places: Branding and the Role of Narrative in the Study of Communication -- 6 The "Not Yet Pregnant": The Impact of Narratives on Infertility Identity and Reproductive Policy -- 7 Letter-Writing and the Eighteenth-Century Scientific Community: Constructing Narratives and Identity -- Section II Summary An Author Conversation -- Section III Performing Bodies, Creating Stories -- 8 Narratives of Pain -- 9 Narrative and the Performing Arts: A Symposium -- 10 Stories and Objects: Narrative and the Construction of Connective Links in an American Quilting Guild -- 11 The Currency of Stories: Anthropologists, Nawaals, and the Strange World of Academe -- Section III Summary An Author Conversation -- Conclusion: Narrative Diffusion -- List of Contributors -- Index