The (mis)uses of life histories. The linguistic turn, life histories and (women’s) life stories

This paper retraces the debates on life-histories before and after the linguistic turn in the social sciences, and, more specifically, in the anthropological tradition. It stresses how poststructuralist feminist methodological, theoretical, and political appropriations of personal narratives represe...

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Main Author: Claudia de Lima Costa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 1999-12-01
Series:Horizontes Antropológicos
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-71831999000300133&lng=en&tlng=en