Sökresultat för: Barbara Myerhoff
Number Our Days (Häftad)
avBarbara Myerhoff
ISBN: 9780671254308 - UTGIVEN: 198005When noted anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff received a grant to explore the process of aging, she decided to study some elderly Jews from Venice, California, rather than to report on a more exotic people. The story of the rituals and lives of these remarkable old people is, as Bel Kaufman said, "one [...]
Stories as Equipment for Living (Pocket)
avMyerhoff, Barbara
ISBN: 9780472069705 - UTGIVEN: 2007-02-15Barbara Myerhoff's groundbreaking work in reflexivity and narrative ethnography broke with tradition by focusing not on the raw ethnographic data, but on her interaction with those she studied. Myerhoff's unfinished projects, including her final talks on storytelling, ritual, and the "culture of agi[...]
