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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Schneider, William S., 1946- (-), Crowell, Aron, 1952-
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Logan : Utah State University Press c2008.
Materias:
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430332906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction - William Schneider
  • 2. The Giant Footprints: A Lived Sense of Story and Place - Holly Cusack-McVeigh
  • 3. The St. Lawrence Island Famine and Epidemic, 1878-80: A Yupik Narrative in Cultural and Historical Context - Aron L. Crowell and Estelle Oozevaseuk
  • 4. Singing and Retelling the Past - Kirin Narayan
  • 5. The Weight of Faith: Generative Metaphors in the Stories of Eva Castellanoz - Joanne B. Mulcahy
  • 6. The Representation of Politics and the Politics of Representation: Historicizing Palestinian Women's Narratives - Sherna Berger Gluck
  • 7. Performance/Participation: A Museum Case Study in Participatory Theatre - Lorraine McConaghy
  • 8. Afterword - William Schneider
  • Index