"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
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| 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 |
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| 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. |