Author : Julie Cruikshank
Release : 2000-08
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 497/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Social Life of Stories by : Julie Cruikshank
Download or read book The Social Life of Stories written by Julie Cruikshank. This book was released on 2000-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this illuminating and theoretically sophisticated study of indigenous oral narratives, Julie Cruikshank moves beyond the text to explore the social power and significance of storytelling. Circumpolar Native peoples today experience strikingly different and often competing systems of narrative and knowledge. These systems include more traditional oral stories; the authoritative, literate voice of the modern state; and the narrative forms used by academic disciplines to represent them to outsiders.