Professor of Anthropology Elinor Ochs's Books

Living Narrative

Creating Lives in Everyday Storytelling

By: Elinor Ochs,Professor of Anthropology Elinor Ochs,Lisa Capps

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Living Narrative

Creating Lives in Everyday Storytelling

By: Elinor Ochs,Professor of Anthropology Elinor Ochs,Lisa Capps

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. Letting us listen in on dinner-table conversation, prayer, and gossip, Elinor Ochs and Lisa Capps develop a way of understanding the seemingly contradictory nature of everyday narrative--as a genre that is not necessarily homogeneous and as an activity that is not always consistent but consistently serves our need to create selves and communities. Focusing on the ways in which narrative is co-constructed, and on the variety of moral stances embodied in conversation, the authors draw out the instructive inconsistencies of these collaborative narratives, whose contents and ordering are subject to dispute, flux, and discovery. In an eloquent last chapter, written as Capps was waging her final battle with cancer, they turn to unfinished narratives, those stories that will never have a comprehensible end. With a hybrid perspective--part humanities, part social science--their book captures these complexities and fathoms the intricate and potent narratives that live within and among us.

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Harvard University Press

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0674041593

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9780674041592

Culture and Language Development

Language Acquisition and Language Socialization in a Samoan Village

By: Elinor Ochs

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Culture and Language Development

Language Acquisition and Language Socialization in a Samoan Village

By: Elinor Ochs

In this book, Elinor Ochs explores the complex interaction of socialisation and language acquisition in children.

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294

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CUP Archive

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0521348943

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9780521348942

Eloquence in Trouble : The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh

The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh

By: James M. Wilce Assistant Professor of Anthropology Northern Arizona University

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Eloquence in Trouble : The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh

The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh

By: James M. Wilce Assistant Professor of Anthropology Northern Arizona University

Eloquence in Trouble captures the articulation of several troubled lives in Bangladesh as well as the threats to the very genres of their expression, lament in particular. The first ethnography of one of the most spoken mother tongues on earth, Bangla, this study represents a new approach to troubles talk, combining the rigor of discourse analysis with the interpretive depth of psychological anthropology. Its careful transcriptions of Bangladeshi troubles talk will disturb some readers and move others--beyond past academic discussion of personhood in South Asia.

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326

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198026668

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9780198026662

Living Narrative

Creating Lives in Everyday Storytelling

By: Elinor Ochs,Professor of Anthropology Elinor Ochs,Lisa Capps

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Creating Lives in Everyday Storytelling

By: Elinor Ochs,Professor of Anthropology Elinor Ochs,Lisa Capps

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Living Narrative

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Eloquence in Trouble : The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh

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