"A human being is not a suit or a shoe!" : the construction and performance of identity in personal narrative /

a directed interview which concentrated on traditional

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bou-Saada, Ingrid Edmond, 1969-
Format: Thesis eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1995.
Subjects:
Online Access:Link to OAKTrust copy
Description
Summary:a directed interview which concentrated on traditional
addition, the comparison of these two methodologies will also
address the philosophical issues of an "insider" doing
contextual information for a fuller understanding of what it
contrast, this thesis provides an in-depth, contextualized
different, and yet just as valuable, interpretational
directed performance, is compared to an extended passage from
documentation of personal experience narratives. The
hypotheses and make predictions about human behavior. In
information about the human condition. In order to uncover
Lebanese father, an older man, and a human being with a sense
Lebanese medicine and beliefs about health. This comparison
life story and the interview, will also provide complementary
means to the narrator to be an immigrant to America, a
Much of social science research and interpretation is
narrative of the performer's life story, a predominately non-
of worth and dignity.
performer/narrator teaches the author, his daughter, the
recording of a performer-controlled life story, and the
researcher who, as his daughter, can provide vastly
reveal the dynamics of tradition within the family as the
specifics of customary Lebanese beliefs and behavior. In
study of one individual, a Lebanese inunigrant, by a
subjective research. These two genres of oral narrative, the
such in-depth, diachronic information, this thesis includes
the use of various techniques, including the interview, the
undertaken with the aim of objectivity in order to posit
will uncover the differences of the two methods as well as
Item Description:"Major subject: Anthropology".
Vita.
Physical Description:ix, 274 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Also available online.
Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.