The Lives of Teachers: Feminism and Life History Narratives

1994 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Kathleen Weiler ◽  
Kathleen Casey ◽  
Sue Middleton
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
History Narratives

Socialist Modernisation in Mongolia as Narrated after Socialism

Inner Asia ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuki Konagaya
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
View Point ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
History Narratives

AbstractIn this article I introduce our collection of oral histories composed of life histories recorded between 2001 and 2006. First, I discuss some devices implemented in the process of collecting life histories, which was to make oral histories 'polyphonic'. I then suggest that oral history always has a 'dual' tense, in that people talk about 'the past' from the view point of 'the present'. This is illustrated by six cases of statesmen narrating their views about socialist modernisation. Finally, using one of the cases, I demonstrate the co-existence of non-official or private opinions along with official opinions about the socialist period in life-history narratives in the post-socialist period. I call this 'ex-post value'.

scholarly journals Deconstructing PTSD: Trauma and emotion among Mexican immigrant women

2020 ◽  
pp. 136346152090312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Kimmell ◽  
Emily Mendenhall ◽  
Elizabeth A Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Mexican Immigrant ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Psychological Stressors ◽  
Mexican Immigrant Women ◽  
History Narratives

The symptomatology for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) narrowly focuses on particular diagnostic frames and a single triggering event. Such narrow definitions of trauma and recovery have been heavily critiqued by anthropologists and cultural psychiatrists for overlooking cultural complexity as well as the effects of multiple and overlapping events that may cause someone to become “traumatized” and thereby affect recovery. This article investigates how subjective reporting of traumatic experience in life history narratives relates to depressive and PTSD symptomatology, cultural idioms, and repeated traumatic experiences among low-income Mexican immigrant women in Chicago. We interviewed 121 Mexican immigrant women and collected life history narratives and psychiatric scales for depression and PTSD. Most women spoke of the detrimental effects of repeated traumatic experiences, reported depressive (49%) and PTSD (38%) symptoms, and described these experiences through cultural idioms. These data complicate the PTSD diagnosis as a discrete entity that occurs in relation to a single acute event. Most importantly, these findings reveal the importance of cumulative trauma and cultural idioms for the recognition of suffering and the limitation of diagnostic categories for identifying the needs of those who experience multiple social and psychological stressors.

Metaphors of Ethnic Identity: Projective Life History Narratives of Trinidadians of Indian Descent

1995 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael V. Angrosino
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Life History ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
West Indies ◽  
West Indian ◽  
The West ◽  
Pluralistic Society ◽  
History Narratives ◽  
Secure Place ◽  
Formal Properties

Abstract Indentured laborers from India were brought to the West Indies beginning in the 1840s. They form upwards of 40% of the population of several West Indian territories, including Trinidad (part of the nation of Trinidad and Tobago). Despite considerable assimilation to West Indian norms, these peo-ple of Indian descent feel strongly about retaining a separate and distinctive cultural identity. There is no overall consensus, however, as to what these people and their distinctive culture should be called. I argue that the quest for an appropriate label of ethnic identity is not a matter of arcane academic interest, but is at the heart of these people's construction of a secure place in a pluralistic society. The technique of projective life-history narrative is explored as a means to uncover the dynamic of the discourse of ethnic self-identification in modern Trinidad. Four widely used labels of ethnic identity are seen as master meta-phors to which individual life accounts are assimilated. Analysis of the formal properties of those accounts facilitates an understanding of how people of Indian descent think of themselves and present themselves in social interaction with members of other groups. (Anthropology)

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