Living with stories : telling, re-telling, and remembering /

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 performanc...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors: Schneider, William S., 1946-, Crowell, Aron, 1952-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Logan : Utah State University Press, [2008]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / William Schneider
  • The Giant Footprints: A Lived Sense of Story and Place / Holly Cusack-McVeigh
  • Conversation with Klara B. Kelley
  • The St. Lawrence Island Famine and Epidemic, 1878-80: A Yupik Narrative in Cultural and Historical Context / Aron L. Crowell and Estelle Oozevaseuk
  • Conversation with James Clifford
  • Singing and Retelling the Past / Kirin Narayan
  • Conversation with Barre Toelken
  • The Weight of Faith: Generative Metaphors in the Stories of Eva Castellanoz / Joanne B. Mulcahy
  • Conversation with Barbara A. Babcock
  • 6. The Representation of Politics and the Politics of Representation: Historicizing Palestinian Women's Narratives / Sherna Berger Gluck
  • Conversation with Ted Swedenburg
  • Performance/Participation: A Museum Case Study in Participatory Theatre / Lorraine McConaghy
  • Conversation with Karen R. Utz
  • Afterword / William Schneider.
  • 7. Performance/Participation: A Museum Case Study in Participatory Theatre
  • Lorraine McConaghy8. Afterword
  • William Schneider; Index.