Life lived like a story : cultural constructions of life history by Tagish and Tutchone women ...

• Main Author: Cruikshank, Julie
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of British Columbia 2012
• Subjects: Yukon; Canada; Tagish; tlingit; Tutchone
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0106944; https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0106944

This thesis is based on collaborative research conducted over ten years with three elders of Athapaskan/Tlingit ancestry, in the southern Yukon Territory, Canada Mrs. Angela Sidney, Mrs. Kitty Smith and Mrs. Annie Ned are also authors of this document because their oral accounts of their lives are central to the discussion. One volume examines issues of method and ethnographic writing involved in such research and analyses the accounts provided by these women; a second volume presents their accounts, in their own words, in three appendices. The thesis advanced here is that life history offers two distinct contributions to anthropology. As a method, it provides a model based on collaboration between participants rather than research 'by' an anthropologist 'on' the community. As ethnography, it shows how individuals may use the traditional dimension of culture as a resource to talk about their lives, and explores the extent to which it is possible f or anthropologists to write ethnography grounded in the ...