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From: drew-mc2k <dhalevy@mc2k.com>
List Editor: drew-mc2k <dhalevy@mc2k.com>
Editor's Subject: Menstruation exiles?
Author's Subject: Menstruation exiles?
Date Written: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 11:19:46 -0500
Date Posted: Wed, 28 Sep 1999 12:19:46 -0400

I don't know about the brother's autobiography, but the work I read was
Mountain Wolf Woman's "story" as told to:  that is, the introduction states
"The Story was recorded on tape, exactly as it flowed from the informant's
lips." But there are mediating voices, etc.  ("edited by Nancy Oestreich
Lurie and Foreword  by Ruth Underhill"), and  it's presented as
"anthropology."

Such texts are mediated in various ways:  I know the book claims to be
"exactly as narrated," but I guess I have some suspiscions about it all,
and they need to be approached with some care and critical thought.


Robin Reid <Robin_Reid@tamu-commerce.edu>

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