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Gathered Together: Listening to Musqueam Lived Experiences
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 39, Number 3, Summer 2016
- pp. 469-494
- 10.1353/bio.2016.0056
- Article
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Abstract:
What forms does biography take in my community, Musqueam? My experience listening to storytellers gathered together demonstrates a) the inseparability of narrating lived experiences and carrying forward Musqueam’s distinct teachings; b) the collective nature of telling and remembering; and c) how this form of oral tradition—of life-telling—requires its own set of listening skills. I conclude that group storytelling can inform other forms of representation such as biography and ethnography.