Living With Stories: Telling, Re-telling, and Remembering

by William Schneider (Editor)

Overview

In essays about communities as varied as Alaskan Native, East Indian, Palestinian, Mexican, and African American, oral historians, folklorists, and anthropologists look at how traditional and historical oral narratives live through re-tellings, gaining meaning and significance in repeated performances, from varying contexts, through cultural and historical knowing, and due to tellers' consciousness of their audiences.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780874216905
Publisher:	Utah State University Press
Publication date:	03/01/2006
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	184
File size:	3 MB

Table of Contents

Contents 1. Introduction William Schneider 2. "The Giant Footprints:" A Lived Sense of Story and Place Holly Cusack-McVeigh, Conversation with Klara B. Kelley 3. The St. Lawrence Island Famine and Epidemic, 1878-80: A Yupik Narrative in Cultural and Historical Context Aron Crowell and Estelle Oozevaseuk, Conversation with James Clifford 4. Singing and Retelling the Past Kirin Narayan, Conversation with Barre Toelken 5. The Weight of Faith: Generative Metaphors in the Stories of Eva Castellanoz Joanne Mulcahy, Conversation with Barbara A. Babcock 6. The Representation of Politics and the Politics of Representation: Historicizing Palestinian Women's Narratives Sherna Gluck, Conversation with Ted Swedenburg 7. Performance/Participation: A Museum Case Study in Participatory Theatre Lorraine McConaghy, Conversation with Karen R. Utz 8. Afterword William Schneider Index