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The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory - Softcover

Cruikshank, Julie

 
9780803264090: The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803264097 ISBN 13: 9780803264090
Verlag: Bison Books, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

In this theoretically sophisticated study of indigenous oral narratives, Julie Cruikshank moves beyond the text to explore the social significance of storytelling. Circumpolar Native peoples today experience strikingly different and often competing systems of narrative and knowledge. These systems include traditional oral stories; the authoritative, literate voice of the modern state; and the narrative forms used by academic disciplines to represent them to outsiders. Pressured by other systems of narrative and truth, how do Native peoples use their stories and find them still meaningful in the late twentieth century? Why does storytelling continue to thrive? What can anthropologists learn from the structure and performance of indigenous narratives to become better academic storytellers themselves?

Cruikshank addresses these questions by deftly blending the stories gathered from her own fieldwork with interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives on dialogue and storytelling, including the insights of Walter Benjamin, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Harold Innis. Her analysis reveals the many ways in which the artistry and structure of storytelling mediate between social action and local knowledge in indigenous northern communities.

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Julie Cruikshank is a professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Life Lived Like a Story: Life Stories of Three Yukon Native Elders (Nebraska 1990), winner of the 1992 MacDonald Prize.

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Verlag
Bison Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803264097
ISBN 13 
9780803264090
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
221
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