Fluent Selves

Fluent Selves
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 335
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ISBN-10 : 9780803265141
ISBN-13 : 080326514X
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Book Synopsis Fluent Selves by : Suzanne Oakdale

Download or read book Fluent Selves written by Suzanne Oakdale and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fluent Selves examines narrative practices throughout lowland South America focusing on indigenous communities in Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru, illuminating the social and cultural processes that make the past as important as the present for these peoples. This collection brings together leading scholars in the fields of anthropology and linguistics to examine the intersection of these narratives of the past with the construction of personhood. The volume’s exploration of autobiographical and biographical accounts raises questions about fieldwork, ethical practices, and cultural boundaries in the study of anthropology. Rather than relying on a simple opposition between the “Western individual” and the non-Western rest, contributors to Fluent Selves explore the complex interplay of both individualizing as well as relational personhood in these practices. Transcending classic debates over the categorization of “myth” and “history,” the autobiographical and biographical narratives in Fluent Selves illustrate the very medium in which several modes of engaging with the past meet, are reconciled, and reemerge.


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