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Braid, Donald.

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The negotiation of meaning and identity in the narratives of the travelling people of Scotland.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The negotiation of meaning and identity in the narratives of the travelling people of Scotland./
Author:	Braid, Donald.
Description:	307 p.
Notes:	Chair: Richard Bauman.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International57-03A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9623890

The negotiation of meaning and identity in the narratives of the travelling people of Scotland.
Braid, Donald.

The negotiation of meaning and identity in the narratives of the travelling people of Scotland. - 307 p.

Chair: Richard Bauman.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 1996.

Based in ethnographic field research with the Travelling People of Scotland, this dissertation explores the dynamic relationship between Traveller narratives and Traveller lives. I first develop my suggestion that narrative is a key expressive form for Travellers. Then, drawing on specific examples of both traditional and expediential narratives, I demonstrate how Travellers use narrative discourse in constructing and negotiating aspects of worldview and cultural identity--both among themselves and in interactions with outsiders.Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

The negotiation of meaning and identity in the narratives of the travelling people of Scotland.
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500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-03, Section: A, page: 1267.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 1996.
520 $a Based in ethnographic field research with the Travelling People of Scotland, this dissertation explores the dynamic relationship between Traveller narratives and Traveller lives. I first develop my suggestion that narrative is a key expressive form for Travellers. Then, drawing on specific examples of both traditional and expediential narratives, I demonstrate how Travellers use narrative discourse in constructing and negotiating aspects of worldview and cultural identity--both among themselves and in interactions with outsiders.
520 $a Building on recent discourse-centered and performance-centered approaches to culture that suggest social life is communicatively constituted, I argue that worldview and therefore identity (understood as a perception of similarity or difference in worldview) are emergent personal constructs formed through the unfolding of personal experience in relation to community interaction. These constructs are pragmatic in that they provide essential frameworks that orient individuals to their world and to their social environment. I further argue that narrative, as one form of symbolic discourse, among the other expressive forms and traditions of folklore, plays a key role in constructing negotiating, and attuning the individual constructs of worldview and identity within Traveller communities.
520 $a My focus on the interrelationships between identity and narrative discourse necessarily involves a concern for the interconnections between identity and meaning in narrative. In one sense identity is a form of meaning that permeates narrative. In this sense narrative content and the stylistic patterns of performance can index facets of shared identity. But in another sense, identity is one potential meaning that is constructed and negotiated through the signification systems found in narrative communication. An exploration of the forms of meaning in narrative is therefore woven throughout the dissertation as a foundation for my discussion of identity.
520 $a Though I formulate my arguments with respect to the specifics of Traveller narrative traditions, I frame my comments in general terms with the suggestion that my conceptions of the relationships benzene meaning, identity, and narrative might give insight into questions of narrative use in other groups.
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