Stories as Equipment for Living: Last Talks and Tales of Barbara Myerhoff - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0472069705 ISBN 13: 9780472069705

Publisher: University of Michigan Press, 2007

Synopsis

Barbara Myerhoff's groundbreaking work in reflexivity and narrative ethnography broke with tradition by focusing not on the raw ethnographic data, but on her interactions with those she studied. Myerhoff's unfinished projects, including her final talks on storytelling, ritual and the ""culture of aging the Yiddishkeit,"" offer a magisterial summary of her life's work. Together these texts provide a unique document, of use to those interested in anthropology, folklore, ethnography, human gerontology, Jewish studies, women's studies, storytelling and performance studies.

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Review:

The beauty of Stories as Equipment for Living is the quality of being a compilation of rescued fragments, bits and pieces of a great master's writing and thinking that were coming towards synthesis but had never reached a finished form prior to her death. This collection is an examination of the place of narrative in human life, the synthetic nature of culture and the constant search for visibility particularly by those relegated for one reason or another to the margins. A thought-provoking book worthy of extended reflection. - Jack Kugelmass, Professor of Anthropology and Director of Jewish Studies, University of Florida

About the Author:

Marc Kaminsky is a psychotherapist, poet, writer, and former codirector of the Institute on Humanities, Arts and Aging of the Brookdale Center on Aging. He lives in New York City. Mark Weiss is a writer, editor, translator, and poet. He lives in San Diego, California. Deena Metzger is a novelist, poet, and founding codirector (with Marc Kaminsky) of the Myerhoff Center. She lives in Topanga, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0472069705
• ISBN 13: 9780472069705
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Kaminsky Marc, Metzger Deena, Weiss Mark