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MARC recordThe social life of stories: narrative and knowledge in the Yukon Territory / Julie Cruikshank.
| Title: | The social life of stories: narrative and knowledge in the Yukon Territory / Julie Cruikshank. |
| Author(s): | Cruikshank, Julie. |
| Date: | 1998. |
| Publisher: | Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press |
| Abstract: | Building on collaborative work undertaken with three Yukon elders between 1974 and late 1980s, studies social power and significance of storytelling. Questions considered include: how Native peoples today use their stories and find them still meaningful; why storytelling continues to thrive; how anthropologists can learn from structure and performance of indigenous narratives to become better academic storytellers themselves. |
| Keywords: | 39 -- Ethnography: Indians. 291.8 -- Oral history. T -- Social anthropology and ethnography. (*41) -- Canada. (*430) -- Yukon Territory. |
| Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-SHF: (*41) : 39(=811)[1998] |
| ISBN: | 0803214901 |
| SPRI record no.: | 146147 |
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