The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon TerritoryU of Nebraska Press, 1.8.2000 - 221 sivua 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 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? What can anthropologists learn from the structure and performance of indigenous narratives to become better academic storytellers themselves? Cruikshank addresses these questions by deftly blending the stories gathered from her own fieldwork with interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives on dialogue and storytelling, including the insights of Walter Benjamin, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Harold Innis. 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. |
Sisältö
Preface | xi |
Acknowledgments | xix |
Note on Transcription | xxiii |
My Roots Grow in Jackpine Roots Culture History and Narrative Practice in the Yukon | 1 |
Petes Song Establishing Meanings through Story and Song | 25 |
Yukon Arcadia Oral Tradition Indigenous Knowledge and the Fragmentation of Meaning | 45 |
Confronting Cultural Erasure Images of Society in Klondike Gold Rush Narratives | 71 |
Imperfect Translations Rethinking Objects of Ethnographic Collection | 98 |
Claiming Legitimacy Prophecy Narratives from Northern Aboriginal Women | 116 |
Negotiating with Narrative Establishing Cultural Identity at the Yukon International Storytelling Festival | 138 |
Epilogue | 161 |
Notes | 167 |
Bibliography | 187 |
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Muita painoksia - Näytä kaikki
The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory Julie Cruikshank Rajoitettu esikatselu - 2000 |
The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory Julie Cruikshank Rajoitettu esikatselu - 1998 |
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