The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory
The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory
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故事的社会生活：育空地区的叙事和知识
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10.2307/541962
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1999
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J. Cruikshank
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J. Cruikshank
在对土著口头叙事的理论研究中，Julie Cruikshank超越了文本，探索了讲故事的社会意义。今天，极地周围的土著人民经历着截然不同的、经常相互竞争的叙事和知识体系。这些系统包括传统的口头故事；现代国家权威的、有文化的声音；以及学术学科对外展示的叙事形式。在其他叙事和真相体系的压力下，土著人民如何使用他们的故事，并发现它们在20世纪后期仍然有意义？为什么讲故事会继续蓬勃发展？人类学家可以从土著叙事的结构和表现中学到什么，从而成为更好的学术故事讲述者？克鲁克香克巧妙地将她从自己的田野调查中收集到的故事与对话和讲故事的跨学科理论观点结合起来，包括沃尔特·本雅明、米哈伊尔·巴赫金和哈罗德·英尼斯的见解，解决了这些问题。她的分析揭示了在北方土著社区中，讲故事的艺术性和结构在社会行动和当地知识之间起到调解作用的多种方式。Julie Cruikshank是英属哥伦比亚大学的人类学教授。她是《生活就像一个故事：三个育空地区土著长老的生活故事》（内布拉斯加州，1990年）的作者，1992年麦克唐纳奖得主。
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 do Native peoples use their stories and find them still meaningful in the late twentieth century? Why does storytelling continue to thrive? What can anthropologists learn from the structure and performance of indigenous narratives to become better academic storytellers themselves? Cruikshank addresses these questions by deftly blending the stories gathered from her own fieldwork with interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives on dialogue and storytelling, including the insights of Walter Benjamin, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Harold Innis. Her analysis reveals the many ways in which the artistry and structure of storytelling mediate between social action and local knowledge in indigenous northern communities. Julie Cruikshank is a professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Life Lived Like a Story: Life Stories of Three Yukon Native Elders (Nebraska 1990), winner of the 1992 MacDonald Prize.