Narrative and genre / edited by Mary Chamberlain and Paul Thompson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : genre and narrative in life stories / Mary Chamberlain and Paul Thompson -- Oral history as genre / Alessandro Portelli -- Silences : the case of a psychiatric hospital / Diana Gittens -- A Brazilian worker's autobiography in an unexpected form : interweaving the interview and the novel / José Sérgio Leite Lopes and Rosilene Alvim -- Family fables / Chris Mann -- Anecdote as narrative resource in working-class life stories : parody, dramatization and sequence / T.G. Ashplant -- My life as consumer : narratives from the world of goods / Orvar Löfgren -- Distant homes, our genre : recognizing Chinese lives as an anthropologist / Stephan Feuchtwang -- The oral history interview in a cross-cultural setting : an analysis of its linguistic, social and ideological structure / Yvette J. Kopijn -- In the archive, in the field : what kind of document is an 'oral history'? / Kathryn Marie Dudley -- Sharing and reshaping life stories : problems and potential in archiving narratives / Paul Thompson -- Raphael Samuel : an appreciation / Jerry White.