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Genre/Form: | Kongress Conference papers and proceedings Congresses Congrès |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Myths we live by. London ; New York : Routledge, 1990 (OCoLC)622715373 |
Material Type: | Conference publication |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Raphael Samuel; Paul Thompson |
ISBN: | 0415034906 9780415034906 0415036097 9780415036092 |
OCLC Number: | 20318751 |
Notes: | "All the papers ... presented at the Sixth International Oral History Conference on 'Myth and History' held at St. John's College, Oxford, on 11-13 September 1987"--Acknowledgements. |
Description: | x, 262 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | History and the myth of realism / Elizabeth Tonkin -- Myths in life stories / Jean Peneff -- Mythbiography in oral history / Luisa Passerini -- Myths in contemporary oral transmission / Rosanna Basso -- The Anzac legend : exploring national myth and memory in Australia / Alistair Thomson -- William Wallace and Robert the Bruce / Marinell Ash -- Myth, impotence, and survival in the concentration camps / Anna Bravo, Lilia Davite, and Daniele Jalla -- Abraham Esau's war, 1899-1901 : martyrdom, myth and folk memory in Calvinia, South Africa / Bill Nasson -- Free sons of the forest : storytelling and the construction of identity among Swedish lumberjacks / Ella Johanson -- Uchronic dreams / Alessandro Portelli. (Cont) Myth as suppression : motherhood and the historical consciousness of the women of Madrid, 1936-9 / Elena Cabezali, Matilde Cuevas and Maria Teresa Chicote -- Myth as a framework for life stories : Athapaskan women making sense of social change in northern Canada / Julie Cruikshank -- Stories to live by : continuity and change in three generations of Puerto Rican women / Rina Benmayor [and others] -- Ancient Greek family tradition and democracy / Rosalind Thomas -- The power of family myths / John Byng-Hall, interviewed by Paul Thompson -- Changing images of German maids during the inter-war period in the Netherlands / Barbara Henkes -- Stepchildren's memories / Natasha Burchardt. |
Series Title: | History workshop series. |
Responsibility: | edited by Raphael Samuel and Paul Thompson. |
Abstract:
The power of the myth in shaping the actions and the imagination of the present is considered in these essays, challenging traditional historical perceptions. Other "History Workshop" publications include "Patriotism" and "Metropolis".
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