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

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The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory - Cruikshank, Julie
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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 ...

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The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory 2000, Bison Books

ISBN-13: 9780803264090

Trade paperback

The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory 2000, University of British Columbia Press

ISBN-13: 9780774806497

Trade paperback

The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory 1998, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE

ISBN-13: 9780803214903

Hardcover