Kuragraphy is unstructured, unscheduled informal/casual talk with the friends(after assimilation with the study population) from the subject core in natural settings, more based on the headnotes and field diaries, though I will use a mobile recorder and camera as convenience in the situation.
Kurã is a Nepali word, literally meaning casual/informal talk. Kuragraphy is a term used by the British anthropologist Robert R. Desjarlais (2003) as an ethnographic method for data generation.
I agree with Robert R. Desjarlais (2003) about the "deep hanging out" with interlocutors: drinking tea/coffee with them, shuffling cards, exchanging in wordplay, watching television, sharing work, attending festivals and rituals, noting appearances, talking and listening to the talk of others,
thinking about that talk -- so much talk, it seems, so many words, so much Kura, to use a Nepali word -- depending on the context and any verb or modifier that accompanies it, either "talk," "thing," "matter," "opinion," "event," "problem," "price".
In "Kurgraphy," I'll keep track of the Kura's variations: "Kura- Kahni" (conversations), "Re-ko Kura" (hearsay), "Manko-ko Kura" (matters of the heart), "Bite-ka Kura" (matters of the past), "Bholi-ko Kura" (matters of the future), "Kura Garnu" (to converse with others) etc, The variation of Kura with different people, time, and context means the variation of the data. Even though we are talking about the same informants at different places, the data may differ with the different time and context, so I will say that the Kura with different informants will have a variety of data, and the same informant in a different time and context in which I can validate and cross-check the data.
Ref:
Desjarlais, Robert R. 2003. Sensory Biographies: Lives and Deaths among Nepal's YolmoBuddhists. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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