Stories as Equipment for Living
Last Talks and Tales of Barbara Myerhoff
Mark Weiss editor Marc Kaminsky editor Deena Metzger editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:The University of Michigan Press
Published:30th Apr '07
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Barbara Myerhoff's groundbreaking work in reflexivity and narrative ethnography broke with tradition by focusing not on the raw ethnographic data, but on her interactions with those she studied. Myerhoff's unfinished projects, including her final talks on storytelling, ritual and the ""culture of aging the Yiddishkeit,"" offer a magisterial summary of her life's work. Together these texts provide a unique document, of use to those interested in anthropology, folklore, ethnography, human gerontology, Jewish studies, women's studies, storytelling and performance studies.
The beauty of Stories as Equipment for Living is the quality of being a compilation of rescued fragments, bits and pieces of a great master's writing and thinking that were coming towards synthesis but had never reached a finished form prior to her death. This collection is an examination of the place of narrative in human life, the synthetic nature of culture and the constant search for visibility particularly by those relegated for one reason or another to the margins. A thought-provoking book worthy of extended reflection. - Jack Kugelmass, Professor of Anthropology and Director of Jewish Studies, University of Florida
ISBN: 9780472069705
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 341g
280 pages