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

by Barbara Myerhoff

Barbara 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 aging and Yiddishkeit," offer a magisterial summary of her life's work.

"The beauty of Stories as Equipment for Living is the quality of being...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472069705
• ISBN13: 9780472069705
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.0"