The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9780803264090ISBN-10:803264097UPC:9780803264090Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Folklore & Mythology, Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:AmericanSize:9.02 x 6.04 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCGYX9XT19
The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory
In this theoretically sophisticated study of indigenous oral narratives, Julie Cruikshank moves beyond the text to explore 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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9780803264090ISBN-10:803264097UPC:9780803264090Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Folklore & Mythology, Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:AmericanSize:9.02 x 6.04 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCGYX9XT19
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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