ANTH 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Narrative, Telling Stories, Personal Construct Theory
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Narrators make sense of an emotionally disturbing event through telling a narrative. Narrators lend legitimacy to their actions and seek to achieve a meaningful resolution of their problem. Narrators try to emphasize that they did the right thing. Listening to stories about illness can influence knowledge structures o o o o. Individuals gain information about illness without having to personally experience them. Cultural models are carried by individuals but are partly constructed and refined through conversation and reflection. Cultural knowledge as resource in illness narratives: remembering through accounts of illness (linda. Remembering is best understood as typically reconstructive rather than simply reproductive remember is an active, constructive process (garro 2000:70). As persons talk about their experiences, past events are reconstructed in a manner congruent with current understandings; the present is explained with reference to the reconstructed past; and both are used to generate expectations about the future.
