LIFE HISTORY BIB.

Ronald L. Grimes (rgrimes@MACH1.WLU.CA)
Thu, 1 Jun 1995 16:45:24 -0400

LIFE HISTORY BIBLIOGRAPHY

compiled by Ronald L. Grimes
June 1, 1995
Department of Religion & Culture
Wilfrid Laurier University
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3c5
rgrimes@mach1.wlu.ca

Thanks to Bob Graber, John Meredith, Patsy Evans, Gail R. Pool,
Melody Knutson, Donna J. Young, Caroline Brettell, and any others whose names
I may have missed in compiling this list.

Note 1: Some facts of publication are incomplete.
Note 2: "N.d." means that I do not yet have the date (not that
there is no date in the book)
Note 3: * designates works with substantial bibliographies.
Note 4: Some works are classfied as both narrative and theory.

NARRATIVE MATERIALS

?, n.d. Pretty Shield.

?, 1993. Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza's
Story. Boston: Beacon Press.

Abu-Lughod. 1993. Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Bataille, Gretchen M., and others. 1984. Lincoln, NB: University
of Nebraska Press.

Bateson, Catherine. n.d. Composing a Life.

Bateson, Catherine. n.d. With a Daughter's Eye.

Behar, R., and D. Frye. 1988. "Property, Progeny, and Emotion:
Family History in a Leonese Village," Journal of Family History
13(1): 13-32.

Behar, R., and D. Frye. 1990. "Rage and Redemption: Reading the
Life Story of a Mexican Marketing Woman," Feminist Studies 16(2):
223-58.

Black Elk. 1961. Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy
Man of the Oglala Sioux. Edited by John G. Neihardt. Lincoln, NB:
University of Nebraska Press.

Blackman, Margaret. 1992. During My Time: Florence Edenshaw
Davidson, a Haida Woman.

Bliss, Fran Leeper. 1980. La Partera: Story of a Midwife. Ann
Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Brettell, Caroline. 1982. We Have Already Cried Many Tears: The
Stories of Three Portuguese Migrant Women.

Brown, Karen McCarthy. 1991. Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in
Brooklyn. Berkeley: University of California.

Buechler, Judith, and Hans Buechler. n.d. Carmen: Story of a
Spanish Migrant Woman.

Burgos-Debray, Elizabeth. 1984. Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman
in Guatemala. Translated by Ann Wright. London: Verso.

De Chungara, Domitila Barrios, and Moema Viezzer. 1978. Let Me
Speak! Testimony of Domitila, a Woman of the Bolivian Mines.
Translated by V. Ortiz. New York: Monthly Review Press.

Colby, Benjamin N., and Lore M. Colby. 1981. The Daykeeper: The
Life and Discourse of an Ixil Divner. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press.

Cole, Sally. 1991. Women of the Praia: Work and Lives in a
Portuguese Coastal Community. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press.

Crapanzano, Vincent. 1980. Tuhami: Portrait of a Moroccan.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Critchfield, Richard. 1978. An Egyptian. Forward, NY: Syracuse
University Press.

Cruikshank, K. 1990. Life Lived Like a Story. Lincoln, NB:
University of Nebraska Press.

Deer Lame, John Fire. 1972. Lame Deer: Seeker of Visions. Edited
by Richard Erdoes. New York: Simon and Schuster.

DeMallie, Raymond J.. 1984. The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's
Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt. Lincoln, NB: University of
Nebraska Press.

Dyks, Walter. 1980. Son of Old Man Hat. New York: Columbia
University Press.

Frisbie, Charlotte J., and David P. McAllester. 1978. Navajo
Blessingway Singer: The Autobiography of Frank Mitchell,
1881-1967. Tucson, AR: University of Arizona Press.

Galarza, Ernesto. n.d. Barrio Boy.

Gmelch, Sharon. n.d. Nan: An Irish Tinker Woman.

Hunt, Nigel. 1967. The World of Nigel Hunt: The Diary of a
Mongoloid Youth. Beaconsfield: Darwen Finlayson Ltd.

Inglis, Amirah. 1983. Karo: The Life and Fate of a Papuan.
Canberra: Australian National University Press.

Keesing, Roger M. 1978. 'Elota's Story: The Life and Times of a
Solomon Islands Big Man. Lincoln, NB: University of Queensland
Press.

Kelley, Jane Holden. 1978. Yaqui Women: Contemporary Life
Histories. Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press.

Klassen, Pamela E. 1994. Going by the Moon and the Stars: Stories
of Two Russian Mennonite Women. Waterloo, Canada. Wilfrid Laurier
University Press.

Knight, R. 1974. A Very Ordinary Life. Vancouver, BC: New Star
Books.

Laska, Vera. 1983. Women in the Resistance and the Holocaust: The
Voices of Eyewitnesses. Westport, CN: Greenwood.

Lewis, Oscar. 1961. Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a
Mexican Family. New York: Random House.

Lewis, Oscar, and others. 1977. Living the Revolution: An Oral
History of Contemporary Cuba. Urbana: University of Illinois
Press.

Liberty, Margot. n.d. Cheyenne Memories.

Lifton, Robert Jay, and others. 1979. Six Lives, Six Deaths:
Portraits From Modern Japan. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Linderman, Frank. n.d. Plenty Coups.

Lurie, Nancy Oestreich. 1961. Mountain Wolf Woman, Sister of
Crashing Thunder: The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian. Ann
Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

MacEwan, Grant. 1969. Tatanga Mani, Walking Buffalo of the
Stonies. Edmonton, Canada: Hurtig.

Mandelbaum, David G. 1973. "The Study of Life History: Gandhi,"
Current Anthropology 14: 177-206.

McCune, Billy. 1973. The Autobiography of Billy McCune. San
Francisco: Straight Arrow Books.

Mintz, Sidney Wilfred. 1960. Worker in Cane: A Puerto Rican Life
History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Moises, Rosalio. n.d. A Yaqui Life.

Munson, Henry, Jr., ed. 1984. The House of Si Abd Allah: The Oral
History of a Moroccan Family. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Myerhoff, Barbara. 1978. Number Our Days. New York: E. P. Dutton.

Ngabidj, Grant. 1981. My Country of the Pelican Dreaming. New
York: Humanities.

Opler, Morris E. 1969. Apache Odyssey: A Journey Between Two
Worlds. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.

Patai, D. 1988. "Constructing a Self: A Brazilian Life Story,"
Feminist Studies 14(1): 143-66.

Personal Narratives Group. 1989. Interpreting Women's Lifes:
Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives. Bloomington, IN: Indiana
University Press.

Poggie, John. n.d. Between Two Cultures.

Pozas. n.d. Juan, the Chamula.

Pruitt, Ida. 1967. A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a
Chinese Working Woman. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Pruitt, Ida. 1979. Old Madam Yin: A Memoir of Peking Life.
Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Radin, Paul. 1963. The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian.
Dover: New York.

Rosaldo, Renato. 1976. "The Story of Tukbaw: `They Listen As He
Orates.'"." In The Biographical Process, 121-52. Edited by Frank
Reynolds and Donald Capps. The Hage: Mouton.

Rosenwald, George C., and Richard L. Ochberg, eds.. 1992. Storied
Lives: The Cultural Politics of Self-Understanding. New Haven,
CT: Yale University Press.

Savala, Refugio. 1980. Autobiography of a Yaqui Poet. Tucson:
University of Arizona Press.

Sexton, James D.. 1981. Son of Tecun Uman: A Mayan Indian Tells
His Life Story. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Sharon, Douglas. 1978. Wizard of Four Winds: A Shaman's Story.
New York: Free Press.

Shostak, Marjorie. n.d. N!ai.

Shostak, Marjorie. 1981. Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung
Woman. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Simmons, Leo. 1942. Sun Chief: The Autobiography of a Hopi
Indian. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Smith, M. F. 1954. Baba of Karo: A Woman of the Muslim Hausa.
London: Faber and Faber.

Steedman, Carolyn Kay. 1986. Landscape for a Good Woman. New
Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.

Strathern, Andrew. 1979. Ongka: A Self-Account by a New Guinea
Big-Man. New York: St. Martin's.

Strobel, Margaret. 1989. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University
Press.

Wilson, Peter J. 1974. Oscar: An Inquiry Into the Nature of
Sanity. New York: Vintage.

LIFE HISTORY: THEORETICAL MATERIALS

Aberle, David F. 1967. "The Psychosocial Analysis of a Hopi Life
History." In Personalities and Cultures, 79-138. Edited by Robert
Hunt. New York: Natural History Press.

Abu-Lughod. 1993. Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

*Allport, Gordon W. n.d. The Use of Personal Documents in
Psychological Science. New York: Social Science Research Council.

Angrosino, Michael V. 1976. "The Use of Autobiography As `Life
History': The Case of Albert Gomes," Ethos 4: 133-54.

Angrosino, Michael V. 1982. "Personal Narratives and Cultural
Complexity: An Oral Anthropology of Aruba, Netherlands Antilles,"
Oral History Review 10: 93-118.

Angrosino, Michael V. 1989. Documents of Interaction: Biography,
Autobiography, and Life History in Social Science Perspective.
Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press.

Antrosino, Michael V. 1976. "The Use of Autobiography As `Life
History': The Case of Albert Gomes," Ethos 4: 133-54.

Barnouw, Victor. n.d. Culture and Personality. Dorsey Press.

Bauman, Richard. 1977. Verbal Art As Performance. Prospect
Heights, IL: Waveland Press.

Behar, R., and D. Frye. 1988. "Property, Progeny, and Emotion:
Family History in a Leonese Village," Journal of Family History
13(1): 13-32.

Behar, R., and D. Frye. 1990. "Rage and Redemption: Reading the
Life Story of a Mexican Marketing Woman," Feminist Studies 16(2):
223-58.

*Bertaux, D. 1981. Biography and Society: The Life History
Approach in the Social Sciences. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

Bertaux, Daniel. 1981. "From the Life History Approach to the
Transformation of Sociological Practice." In Biography and
Society: The Life History Approach in the Social Sciences,
29-45. Edited by Daniel Bertaux. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage
Publications.

Blassingame, John W. 1973. "Black Autobiographies As Histories
and Literature," Black Scholar 5: 2-9.

Brandes, Stanley. 1982. "Ethnographic Autobiographies in American
Anthropology." In Crisis in Anthropology: Views From Spring Hill,
187-202. Edited by E.A. Hoebel. New York: Garland.

Catani, Maurizio. 1981. "Social-Life History As Ritualized Oral
Exchange." In The Life History Approach in the Social
SciencesEdited by Daniel Bertraux. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

Crapanzano, Vincent. 1977. "The Life History in Anthropological
Fieldwork," Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly 2(2-3): 3-7.

Crapanzano, Vincent. 1980. Tuhami: Portrait of a Moroccan.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Crapanzano, Vincent. 1984. "Life Histories," American
Anthropologist 86: 953-60.

Dollard, John. 1935. Criteria for the Life History. New Haven:
Yale University Press.

Erikson, Erik H. 1975. Life History and the Historical Movement.
New York: Norton.

Evans, Daryl Paul. 1983. The Lives of Mentally Retarded People.
Boulder, CO: Westview.

Felman, Shoshana, and Dori Laub. 1992. Testimony: Crises of
Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History. New York.
Routledge.

Frank, Gelya. 1995a. Review of Storied Lives: The Cultural
Politics of Self-Understanding, by George C. Rosenwald and
Richard L. Ochberg. American Anthropologist 91(1): 145-8.

Frank, Gelya. 1995b. Review of Life Stories: The Creation of
Coherence, by Charlotte Linde. American Anthropologist 97(1):
145-8.

Geiger, S. 1986. "Women's Life Histories: Method and Content,"
Signs 11(2): 334-51.

Gluck, Sherna Berger, and Daphne Patai. 1991. Women's Words: The
Feminist Practice of Oral History. New York: Routledge.

*Gottschalk, Louis. 1945. The Personal Document in
Anthropological Science. New York: Social Science Research
Council.

Harney, John F. n.d. Oral Testimony and Ethnic Studies. Toronto:
The Multicultural History Society of Ontario.

Johnson-Odin, C., and M. Strobel. 1992. "What's So Feminist About
Doing Oral History?" In Expanding the Bounds of Women's History.
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Kadar, M. 1992. Essays in Life Writing: From Genre to Critical
Practice. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Kluckhohn, Clyde. 1949. "Needed Refinements in the Biographical
Approach." In Culture and Personality, 75-92. Edited by S.
Sargent and M. Smith. New York: Viking.

*Langness, L. L. 1965. The Life History in Anthropological
Science. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Langness, L. L. 1981. An Anthropological Approach to Biography.
Novato, CA: Chandler and Sharp.

*Langness, L., and G. Frank. 1981. Lives: An Anthropological
Approach to Biography. Novato, CA: Chandler and Sharp Publishers.

Lewis, Oscar. 1970. "An Anthropological Approach to Family
Studies." In Anthropological Essays, 81-9. Edited by Oscar Lewis.
New York: Random House.

Linde, Charlotte. 1993. Life Stories: The Creation of Coherence.
New York: Oxford University Press.

Little, Kenneth. 1980. "Explanation and Individual Lives: A
Reconsideration of Life Writing in Anthropology," Dialectical
Anthropology 5: 215-26.

McCall, Michal M., and Judith Wittner. 1990. "The Good News About
Life History." In Symbolic Interaction and Cultural Studies,
46-89. Edited by Howard S Becker and Michal M. McCall. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.

Mintz, Sidney. 1979. "The Anthropological Interview and the Life
History," The Oral History Review: 18-26.

Patai, D. 1988. "Constructing a Self: A Brazilian Life Story,"
Feminist Studies 14(1): 143-66.

Peacock, James, and Dorothy Holland. 1993. "The Narrated Self:
Life Stories in Process," Ethos: Journal of the Society for
Psychological Anthropology 21

*Personal Narratives Group. 1989. Interpreting Women's Lifes:
Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives. Bloomington, IN: Indiana
University Press.

Plummer, Ken. 1983. Documents of Life: An Introduction to the
Problems and Literature of a Humanistic Method. Contemporary
Social Science Research Series. London: Allen and Unwin.

Rosaldo, Renato. 1976. "The Story of Tukbaw: `They Listen As He
Orates.'"." In The Biographical Process, 121-52. Edited by Frank
Reynolds and Donald Capps. The Hage: Mouton.

Runyan, William McKinley. 1982. Life Histories and
Psychobiography: Explorations in Theory and Method. New York:
Oxford University Press.

Sheridan, M. 1984. "The Life History Method." In Lives: Chinese
Working Women, 11-22. Edited by M. Sheridan and J. Salaff.
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Thomas, William I., and Florian Znaniecki. 1958. The Polish
Peasant in Europe and America. 1917-18. Reprint. New York: Dover.

Thompson, P. 1981. "Life Histories and the Analysis of Social
Change." In Biography and Society, 289-306. Edited by D. Bertaux.
Beverley Hills, CA: Sage.

Triandis, Harry C. 1972. The Analysis of Subjective Culture. New
York: John Wiley and Sons.

*Watson, Lawrence C., and Watson-Franke, Barbara. 1985.
Interpreting Life Histories: An Anthropological Inquiry. New
Brunswick, NJ.

Watson-Franke, Maria-Barbara. 1972. "Women's Studies," Bulletin
of the International Committee on Urgent Anthropological and
Ethnological Research 14: 29-36.

Wilson, Peter J. 1974. Oscar: An Inquiry Into the Nature of
Sanity. New York: Vintage.

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Ron Grimes
Department of Religion & Culture
Wilfrid Laurier University
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3C5
E-mail: rgrimes@mach1.wlu.ca
Office phone: (519) 884-0710, ex. 3085