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Storytelling as Narrative Practice
Telling stories is one of the fundamental things we do as humans. Yet in scholarship, stories considered to be “traditional”, such as myths, folk tales, and epics, have often been analyzed separately from the narratives of personal experience that we all tell on a daily basis. In Storytelling as Narrative Practice, editors Elizabeth Falconi and Kathryn Graber argue that storytelling is best understood by erasing this analytic divide. Chapter authors carefully examine language use in-situ, drawing on in-depth knowledge gained from long-term fieldwork, to present rich and nuanced analyses of storytelling-as-narrative-practice across a diverse range of global contexts. Each chapter takes a holistic ethnographic approach to show the practices, processes, and social consequences of telling stories.
The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia
The Buryats are a Mongolian population in Siberian Russia, the largest indigenous minority. The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia presents the dramatic transformation in their everyday lives during the late twentieth century. The book challenges the common notion that the process of modernization during the later Soviet period created a Buryat national assertiveness rather than assimilation or support for the state.
Culture and Communication
This introductory textbook of culture and communication shows students how to use language as a tool to reveal cultural phenomena.
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Life Storying in Oral History
This book proposes the concept of "fictional contamination" to capture the fact that fictionalization and literary complexity can be found across different kinds of narrative. Exploring conversational storytelling in oral history and other interviews from socionarratological perspectives, the book systematically discusses key narrative features such as story templates, dialogue, double deixis, focalization or perspective-taking and mind representation as well as special narrative forms including second-person narration and narratives of vicarious experience. These features and forms attest to storytellers’ linguistic creativity and serve the function of involving listeners by making storie...
A History of the Greber, Graeber, Graber Family, 1680-1980
Johannes (1791-1844) married Margaretha (Barbara?) Normann in 1816, and after his death, his widow immigrated with four of her children in 1849 from Germany to join a son, Conrad Greber (1826-1888), who had already immigrated to Pottsville, Pennsylvania in 1847. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Wisconsin, Texas and elsewhere. Includes several generations of ancestors in Germany.
The Graber Immigrants
Daniel Graber was born 13 May 1779 in France. He was a descendant of one Peter Graber who was born 1680 and lived near Fountaine, France. Daniel married Mary (Marie) Frey 20 January 1800 in Couthenans, France. They immigrated to America in 1834, settled near Louisville, Ohio and were the parents of eleven children. Descendants lived in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and elsewhere.
The Eternal City
Finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award With an epigraph from Freud comparing the mind to a landscape in which all that ever was still persists, The Eternal City offers eloquent testimony to the struggle to make sense of the present through conversation with the past. Questioning what it means to possess and to be possessed by objects and technologies, Kathleen Graber’s award-winning second collection of poetry brings together the elevated and the quotidian to make neighbors of Marcus Aurelius, Klaus Kinski, Walter Benjamin, and Johnny Depp. Like Aeneas, who escapes Troy carrying his father on his back, the speaker of these intellectually and emotionally ambitious poems juggles the weight of private and public history as she is transformed from settled resident to pilgrim.
Mixed Messages
"Mixed Messages shows how media in the Russian Federation's Buryat territories create a minority language public that plays an outsized role in ethnonational politics, but that nonetheless is rapidly shrinking and struggling to redefine itself in a new global era"--
