The Social Life of Stories by Julie Cruikshank
Why does storytelling continue to thrive? What can anthropologists learn from the structure and performance of indigenous narratives to become better academic storytellers? This work addresses these questions. It is a theoretical study of indigenous oral narratives, and moves beyond the text to explore the social significance of storytelling.
"The Social Life of Stories establishes a powerful argument about the legitimacy and viability of the distinctive intellectual traditions of modern Native peoplesOne of the strengths of this book is that Cruikshank extends her thesis to carve out a position that challenges the dominance of non-Native intellectual systems."-American Indian Quarterly American Indian Quarterly
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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| ISBN 13 | 9780803264090 |
| ISBN 10 | 0803264097 |
| Title | The Social Life of Stories |
| Author | Julie Cruikshank |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Nebraska Press |
| Year published | 2000-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 221 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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