The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory

by Julie Cruikshank

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803264097
• ISBN13: 9780803264090
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"