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The Social Life of Stories
Julie Cruikshank
其他書名
Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory
出版UBC Press, 2000-08
主題History / Canada / GeneralHistory / Canada / Provincial, Territorial & Local / Northern Territories (NT, NU, YT)History / HistoriographyHistory / Indigenous Peoples in the AmericasHistory / Polar RegionsLiterary Criticism / CanadianPerforming Arts / StorytellingSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & SocialSocial Science / Customs & TraditionsSocial Science / Folklore & MythologySocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies
ISBN07748064949780774806497
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=2_BdKMakuNQC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In this theoretically sophisticated study of indigenous oral narratives, Julie Cruikshank explores the social significance of storytelling. Circumpolar Native peoples today experience strikingly different and often competing systems of narrative and knowledge. These systems include traditional oral stories; the authoritative, literate voice of the modern state; and the narrative forms used by academic disciplines to represent them to outsiders. Pressured by other systems of narrative and truth, how do Native peoples use their stories and find them still meaningful in the late twentieth century? Why does storytelling continue to thrive?Cruikshank addresses these questions by deftly blending the stories gathered from her own fieldwork with interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives on dialogue and storytelling. Her analysis reveals the many ways in which the artistry and structure of storytelling mediate between social action and local knowledge in indigenous northern communities. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.