The Acquisition of a Speaker by a Story

How History Becomes Memory and Identity

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4103598
AutoresCharlotte Linde (Ames Research Center, autor de correspondencia)
Año2000
Volumen28
Número4
Páginas608-632
Fecha de publicación2000-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthos (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0091-2131 • E-ISSN: 1548-1352
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/eth.2000.28.4.608
OpenAlexW2140021526
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas21
Referencias citadas19

This paper investigates narrative induction as one central means by which institutions acquire new members, and new members acquire a new identity. Narrative induction is the process by which people take on an existing set of stories as relevant to the shaping of their own story. Nonparticipant narratives (narratives told by speakers not present at the events narrated) are used to reproduce collective memory and induct new participants into this memory. The process has three parts: how a person comes to take on someone else's story as centrally relevant to their own; how a person comes to tell their own story in a way shaped by the stories of others, and how a person's story may come to be told and heard by others within an institution as an instance of a normative pattern. This paper demonstrates each phase of the process, using as data an ethnographic study of a major American insurance company

Aesthetics · Art · Collective memory · Ethnography · Identity (music) · Institution · Literature · Narrative · Normative · Political science · Process (computing) · Set (abstract data type) · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Globalization and Cultural Identity · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Psychology