Life Lived Like a Story: Life Stories of Three Yukon Native Elders - Softcover

Cruikshank, Julie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774804130 ISBN 13: 9780774804134

Publisher: UBC Press, 1991

Synopsis

Three remarkable Native women who lived in the southern Yukon Territory for nearly a century collaborated with an anthropologist to produce this unique kind of autobiography. Of Athapaskan and Tlingit ancestry, Angela Sidney, Kitty Smith and Annie Ned drew on oral tradition to structure their own life stories and to explain historical events.

About this title

About the Author:

Of Athapaskan and Tlingit ancestry,Angela Sidney, Kitty Smith,andAnnie Nedlived in the southern Yukon Territory for nearly a century. They collaborated withJulie Cruikshank, an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, to produce this unique kind of autobiography. Cruikshank's books includeThe Stolen Woman: Female Journeys in Tagish, Tutchone Narrative(1982) andDo Glaciers Listen?

Review:

This is an exemplary work ... It is thorough, clear, and wonderfully detailed. What’s more, it is co-authored in a real, rather than fictive sense, bringing to the reader a kind of authenticity and bite that is rarely available ... Certainly specialists will be fascinated with this study, but it is so readable, so interesting, so innovative, that I think it will appeal to a wide audience ... [It] should be a cornerstone in Native American studies, and essential reading in women’s studies, northern studies, and to anyone curious about alternative ways of seeing the world and living a life. It ultimately stands alone, proof that there is progress in anthropological method and description. (Michael Dorris, author of The Broken Cord)

About this edition

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0774804130
• ISBN 13: 9780774804134
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 428