Narratives

HDCS6 who-is-at jetson.uh.edu
Fri, 03 May 1996 12:25:19 -0500 (CDT)

I don't know much about narratives, but it seems to me that narratives
will always, in the end, predominate in story telling cultures (are all
cultures story telling cultures?) because no matter how important a
form of discourse may be at the moment, when it gets replayed by
the story tellers as cultural artefact, it gets replayed as narrative.
It seems to me that this is a brutal methodological problem for
researchers. You attempt to describe non-narrative practices, but
because all researchers are, to one degree or another story tellers,
the description is always a narrative. I think I could go on forever
like this, so I think I'm going to stop my story now.

Michael Glassman
University of Houston