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Storytelling is a universal activity and may well be the oldest of the arts. It has always provided a vehicle for the expression of ideas, particularly in societies relying on oral tradition. Yet investigation of what contemporary storytellers actually communicate to their listeners occupies a restricted place in anthropology. The growing literature on small-scale hunting societies pays careful attention to their subsistence strategies but less to ideas that seem peripheral to their economic activities. A gap remains in our knowledge about the contribution of expressive forms like storytelling to strategies for adapting to social, cultural, and economic change. The life stories appearing in this volume come from communities where storytelling provides a customary framework for discussing the past. Angela Sidney, Kitty Smith and Annie Ned are three remarkable and gifted women of Athapaskan and Tlingit ancestry who were born in the southern Yukon Territory around the turn of the century. Their life stories tell us as much about the present as about the past, as much about ideas of community as about individual experience; they call our attention to the diverse ways humans formulate such linkages.
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Of Athapaskan and Tlingit ancestry, Angela Sidney, Kitty Smith, and Annie Ned lived in the southern Yukon Territory for nearly a century. They collaborated with Julie Cruikshank , an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, to produce this unique kind of autobiography. Cruikshank's books include The Stolen Woman: Female Journeys in Tagish, Tutchone Narrative (1982) and Do Glaciers Listen?
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story shapes the world, Nov 10 2010
By MO "mm" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Life Lived Like a Story: Life Stories of Three Yukon Native Elders (American Indian Lives) (Paperback)
Our stories shape our world. This book shows that. If you want a context for understanding this from the inside out, which is the only way to understand it, other books can be very helpful in the search to get out of the box of white man world. Secrets of Shamanism: Tapping the Spirit Power Within You The Future Is Yours: Do Something About It!Urban Shaman Lost Secrets of Ancient Hawaiian Huna, Volume 1, ThetaHealing can be helpful. There is a Sufi story about moths, and the only moth that really understands the candle is the one who gives himself totally to the light, and the light gives itself to him. This applies to shamanic work, and especially any kind of indigenous approaches to any kind of healing, especially psychological. Shamanic techniques work from the larger self, especially in service to others. Shamanism means working with the subconscious, and at times superconscious minds. It cannot be apprehended by the conscious mind, the ego. Without service, many things just don't work, or work only slightly. Whispers of the Ancients: Native Tales for Teaching and Healing in Our Time gives you some idea of how very different native storytelling is, and so does House of Shattering Light: Life as an American Indian Mystic, & Journey to the Ancestral Self: The Native Lifeway Guide to Living in Harmony With Earth Mother, Book 1 (Bk.1). These are very good basic books, to getting out of the box of White Man culture. Wong Kiew Kit's books on Chi Kung show how ideas like this survive in Chinese culture. Western culture is lost in the literal, and won't look at the deeper meanings of its stories. Neville Goddard has ideas on this, as one example among many. So do Joseph Murphy The Power of Your Subconscious Mind and Max Freedom Long Secret Science Behind MiraclesThis book is a good start, though, sort of like a tourist guide, or a textbook, to reflections from the subconscious mind.
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Pure joy, May 5 2012
By Joyce Derenas - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Life Lived Like a Story: Life Stories of Three Yukon Native Elders (American Indian Lives) (Paperback)
This book gives you 3 independent and unique pictures of the lives of three First Nation women. In their rich oral tradition, they all explain how it was to survive, how to educate their children in their traditional ways, and it was such a joy to walk in their shoes while reading this wonderful story of oral traditions and legends. I loved it immensely.
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Personal and Historical, Nov 13 2000
By unvarnishedtruth - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Life Lived Like a Story: Life Stories of Three Yukon Native Elders (American Indian Lives) (Paperback)
I appreciated all that the women shared regarding their Native history, culture, what it was like to live as they did and how things have changed-for better or worse. The editor did a sensitive and intelligent job of bringing out the uniqueness of each women's story. I spent last summer up north and this gave even more color to what was already, for me, a trip never to be forgotten.
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