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Record Nr.

UNINA9910139787103321

Titolo

Living with stories : telling, re-telling, and remembering / / edited by William Schneider ; with essays by Aron L. Crowell ... [et al]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Logan, : Utah State University Press, c2008

ISBN

9786612445811

9781282445819

1282445812

9780874216905

0874216907

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (183 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Altri autori (Persone)

SchneiderWilliam S. <1946->

CrowellAron <1952->

Disciplina

907

Soggetti

Storytelling

Folklore - Performance

Oral tradition

Oral history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.