Articles with the keyword life story
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Narrative and Reality
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 2007 32(4): 24-33.
Abstract
The article explores the narrative construction of reality in life stories. First, the context of the research is introduced and second, the concept of reality is discussed. Third, narrative construction of one life story is analysed, turning to the relationship between performance and content. As researchers, we have no access to the reality of past events, but only to memories, stories and documents. In oral history, both factual information and the meanings attributed to the past by the people who have lived through it are of equal importance, and both are constructed through emotional, involved, figurative production by the authors of life stories.
Keywords life story, narrative, oral history, reality