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Working the Past : Narrative and Institutional Memory by Charlotte Linde (2008, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100195140281

ISBN-139780195140286

eBay Product ID (ePID)66607049

Product Key Features

Number of Pages264 Pages

Publication NameWorking the Past : Narrative and Institutional Memory

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2008

SubjectBusiness Communication / General, Knowledge Capital, Public Relations, Organizational Behavior, Linguistics / General

TypeTextbook

AuthorCharlotte Linde

Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines, Business & Economics

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight17.1 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2008-009680

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal658.4/038

Table Of Content1.. Introduction: How Institutions Remember2.. Data for the Study: The MidWest Insurance Company3.. Occasions for Institutional Remembering4.. Retold Tales: Repeated Narratives as a Resource for Institutional Remembering5.. Multiple Versions of MidWest's History6.. Three Versions of One Story: A Comparison7.. Paradigmatic Narratives: Exemplary Narratives of Everyman8.. Narrative and Intertextuality: Telling One's Own Story Within a Textual Community9.. Noisy Silences: Stories Not Told10. Working the Past: Identity and MemoryAcknowledgementsReferences

SynopsisStories told within institutions play a powerful role, helping to define not only the institution itself, but also its individual members. How do institutions use stories? How do those stories both preserve the past and shape the future? To what extent does narrative construct both collective and individual identity? Charlotte Linde's unique and far-reaching study addresses these questions by looking at the interplay of narratives, memory, and identity in alarge insurance company., Stories told within institutions play a powerful role, helping to define not only the institution itself, but also its individual members. How do institutions use stories? How do those stories both preserve the past and shape the future? To what extent does narrative construct both collective and individual identity? Charlotte Linde's unique and far-reaching study addresses these questions by looking at the interplay of narratives, memory, and identity in a large insurance company. Her detailed ethnography looks at the role of stories within the institution and how they are employed by its members in both private and group settings. Analyzing the re-telling of certain key stories, she shows how the formation of "core" stories and their multiple re-tellings and modifications provide a means of formulating and promoting a cohesive group identity -- which in turn shapes the stories and identities of the individuals within the collective. Linde also looks at silences, and how stories not told also convey their version of the past. Working the Past shows how stories that might otherwise be seen as part of mundane daily life are in fact utterly essential to the formation and maintenance of individual and group identity. Her original research will appeal to those interested in narrative studies, linguistics, anthropology, sociology, and institutional memory., Stories told within institutions play a powerful role, helping to define not only the institution itself, but also its individual members. How do institutions use stories? How do those stories both preserve the past and shape the future? To what extent does narrative construct both collective and individual identity? Charlotte Linde's unique and far-reaching study addresses these questions by looking at the interplay of narratives, memory, and identity in a large insurance company. Her detailed ethnography looks at the role of stories within the institution and how they are employed by its members in both private and group settings. Analyzing the re-telling of certain key stories, she shows how the formation of "core" stories and their multiple re-tellings and modifications provide a means of formulating and promoting a cohesive group identity - which in turn shapes the stories and identities of the individuals within the collective. Linde also looks at silences, and how stories not told also convey their version of the past. Working the Past shows how stories that might otherwise be seen as part of mundane daily life are in fact utterly essential to the formation and maintenance of individual and group identity. Her original research will appeal to those interested in narrative studies, linguistics, anthropology, sociology, and institutional memory.

LC Classification NumberHD30.3.L545 2009