Used-To Stories: Toward a New Model for Ethnographic Writing andNarrative Collections

In the past few decades, narrative has become one of the hottest buzzwords of the social sciences. Consistently overlooked or undertheorized, however, are what the author has termed “used-to” stories, a type of generalized experience narrative that mediates a specific and habitual event. This article explores the used-to story as part of a narrative continuum that offers not only a new model for identifying and interpreting narrative, but a new model for ethnographic writing.