Being a Widow and Other Life Stories

The Interplay between Lives and Words

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19001972
AutoresLamb (0000-0002-9817-3692, Brandeis University, autor de correspondencia), Sarah Lamb (0000-0003-4619-3269)
Año2001
Volumen26
Número1
Páginas16-34
Fecha de publicación2001-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnthropology & Humanism (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1548-1409 • E-ISSN: 1559-9167
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/ahu.2001.26.1.16
OpenAlexW2036817922
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas18
Referencias citadas69

This article looks at life stories, not just as tales about the past but as creative acts of self‐making and culture making. It explores life stories told by older women in West Bengal, India, focusing on one told by a childless widow. Previous scholars have made the important distinction between life as represented (through telling a story) and life as (actually) lived and experienced. This article suggests a somewhat different track: telling a life story—like other forms of talk or communication—is part of life as lived because, of course, it is lived and experienced, at least during the moments of telling

Lived experience · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · West bengal · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · History · Legal and cultural studies analysis · Philippine History and Culture · Psychology