Date of Award
4-1979
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Anthropology
Supervisor
Richard J. Preston
Language
English
Abstract
This thesis is an attempt to examine why it. is important to study an individual in his culture. A hermeneutical perspective then is offered as an example of one way in which an ethnographer may collect life history materials from a native person. Next, this hermeneutical perspective is developed as an interpretive scheme, the criteria of its uses are explored and then applied in a reinterpretation of Radin's presentation of Crashing Thunder, a Winnebago Indian. Consideration is given to how he used the life history form.
Recommended Citation
Little, William Kenneth, "Life History and Understanding Personal Meanings" (1979). Open Access Dissertations and Theses. Paper 5444.
http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/opendissertations/5444
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