In this illuminating and theoretically sophisticated study of indigenous oral narratives, Julie Cruikshank moves beyond the text to explore the social power and significance of storytelling. Circumpolar Native peoples today experience strikingly different and often competing systems of narrative and knowledge. These systems include more traditional oral stories; the authoritative, literate voice of the modern state; and the narrative forms used by academic disciplines to represent them to outsiders.
- ISBN10 0774806486
- ISBN13 9780774806480
- Publish Date 15 February 1998
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint University of British Columbia Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English