Toward Progressive Narratives of American Identity

Identity Construction in Three AbaGusii Bewitchment Narratives

The stories we tell about our lives unveil their content just as much as the lexical choices we make index a certain worldview, attitude, positionality, and relationship to reality. In essence, in narratives, individuals construct the self and denote personal identities. The available narrative identity studies have largely ignored the language employed by the bewitched while narrating their ex...

Reconfiguring the empty center: drinking, sobriety, and identity in Native American women's narratives.

Although anthropologists have paid little attention to popular American psychological discourse about addiction and recovery, the cultural politics of its engagement by Native North American communities warrant closer examination. By ethnographically contextualizing personal narratives, this paper describes how addiction/recovery discourse has been selectively engaged by younger generations of ...

constructing gender identity through narratives based on hallidays metafunctions

هویت, شکل دادن و بازنمایی آن در گفتمان, توجه بسیاری از محققان این رشته را به خود جلب کرده است. تحقیق حاضر بر شکل دادن به هویت جنسیتی هشت تن از دانشجویان ایرانی مشغول به تحصیل در دوره کارشناسی ارشد از طریق بررسی روایات آنان از تجربیات شخصی, متمرکز شده است. تحلیل داده ها در این تحقیق مشتمل بر سه بخش است: بخش اول شامل کدگذاری موضوعی روایات است که بر اساس آن هویت جنسیتی شرکت کنندگان در تحقیق بر اسا...

Narratives of the history of American medicine.

Identity narratives and group-based emotions