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• Publisher : UBC Press
• File Size : 54,8 Mb
• Release Date : 01 August 2000

In this illuminating and theoretically sophisticated study of indigenous oral narratives, Julie Cruikshank moves beyond the text to explore the social power and significance of storytelling. Circumpolar Native peoples today

• Publisher : Yale University Press
• File Size : 44,8 Mb
• Release Date : 27 June 2017

“A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books.”—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book Review Two centuries before the advent of

• Publisher : UBC Press
• File Size : 51,5 Mb
• Release Date : 11 May 1992

"There is pure gold here for those who want to understand the rules of the old ways. ... [The book] has a convincing sureness, an intensity which cannot be denied, a

• Publisher : Georgetown University Press
• File Size : 44,8 Mb
• Release Date : 09 March 2010

Narratives are fundamental to our lives: we dream, plan, complain, endorse, entertain, teach, learn, and reminisce through telling stories. They provide hopes, enhance or mitigate disappointments, challenge or support moral

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 38,6 Mb
• Release Date : 19 November 2017

This edited volume addresses memory practices among youth, families, cultural workers, activists, and engaged citizens in Lebanon and Morocco. In making a claim for ‘the social life of memory,’ the

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 37,8 Mb
• Release Date : 04 October 2004

Emotions cannot be understood independently of the social relationships and groups where they occur since the social world is defined by emotion and emotions are defined by the social world.

• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• File Size : 22,9 Mb
• Release Date : 06 June 2016

Stacey Dash didn't have the ideal American childhood. Growing up in the South Bronx, her friends were the hustlers, hookers, and gang members who struggled in the face of futility,

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 53,9 Mb
• Release Date : 22 November 2013

Spirits can be haunters, informants, possessors, and transformers of the living, but more than anything anthropologists have understood them as representations of something else—symbols that articulate facets of human

• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• File Size : 54,7 Mb
• Release Date : 05 September 2017

In this book Jeffrey Alexander develops the view that cultural sociology and “cultural pragmatics” are vital for understanding the structural turbulence and political possibilities of contemporary social life. Central to

• Publisher : Cornell University Press
• File Size : 39,9 Mb
• Release Date : 22 August 2012

In Telling Stories, Mary Jo Maynes, Jennifer L. Pierce, and Barbara Laslett argue that personal narratives-autobiographies, oral histories, life history interviews, and memoirs-are an important research tool for understanding the