• Geen verzendkosten vanaf €15,-
  • Uw cadeaus gratis ingepakt
  • Bestellen zonder account mogelijk
  • Geen verzendkosten vanaf €15,-
  • Uw cadeaus gratis ingepakt
  • Bestellen zonder account mogelijk

Living Narrative

Creating Lives in Everyday Storytelling

Elinor Ochs & Lisa Capps

Living Narrative
Living Narrative

Living Narrative

Creating Lives in Everyday Storytelling

Elinor Ochs & Lisa Capps

Paperback | Engels
  • Leverbaar, levertijd is 10-15 werkdagen
  • Niet op voorraad in onze winkel
€ 57,95
  • Vanaf €15,- geen verzendkosten.
  • 30 dagen ruiltermijn voor fysieke producten

Omschrijving

This pathbreaking book looks at everyday storytelling as a twofold phenomenon—a response to our desire for coherence, but also to our need to probe and acknowledge the enigmatic aspects of experience. Elinor Ochs and Lisa Capps develop a way of understanding the seemingly contradictory nature of everyday narrative.

Ochs and Capps’s text is well-written and their background in anthropology and psychology provides a thorough and broad perspective of conversational narratives. They discuss and present examples from several different cultures and a wide range of age groups. The book is theoretically based and provides citations from an extensive spectrum of research on narratives and storytelling… Living Narrative provides an interesting journey into the heart of the conversational narrative. The strong theoretical foundations of the book make it an excellent source book for professors of graduate students to use in analyzing everyday narratives.

Ochs and Capps develop a framework for analyzing narratives of personal experience, focusing on five dimensions or features along which narratives may vary when produced by ordinary speakers in natural, not experimental or literary, settings: ‘tellership,’ from one author to collaboration by two or more; ‘tellability,’ high to low; highly ‘embedded’ narratives to detached ones; closed temporal and causal ‘linearity’ to open temporal and causal ordering; and certain, constant ‘moral stance,’ or uncertain, fluid stance. The transcriptions to illustrate these features are very accessible but include enough fine transcriptions to be lifelike. The authors’ points of view derive from therapeutic concerns and the power of narrative in memory formation and cultural learning, and from anthropological studies of varieties of narrative in different cultures. Most examples are drawn from the US, but a very wide variety of ages, groups, and settings provides cultural diversity. Literary theory, from Bakhtin, Havel, and Vygotsky is well used. The book includes an exceptionally useful and full bibliography.

Elinor Ochs is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Lisa Capps was Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Specificaties

  • Uitgever
    Harvard University Press
  • Verschenen
    sep. 2002
  • Bladzijden
    368
  • Genre
    Sociale en culturele antropologie
  • Afmetingen
    229 x 146 mm
  • Gewicht
    490 gram
  • EAN
    9780674010109
  • Paperback
    Paperback
  • Taal
    Engels

Gerelateerde producten

Posthuman Anthropology

Posthuman Anthropology

Patrick J. Devlieger
€ 46,00
Tricky tijden

Tricky tijden

Jitske Kramer
€ 25,00
Death and display

Death and display

Raymond Corbey
€ 120,00
Death and display

Death and display

Raymond Corbey
€ 50,00
Late liefde

Late liefde

Corine Koole
€ 21,99