Imitating an author
Social Life of Stories
by Julie Cruikshank
Personally I found her style very dry. I’m not sure if it was just the part of the book that I read but I thought it was kinda boring and not very narrative. I felt that I got a lot of the background to the story but never heard the actual story itself. My favorite passage was one that I felt emcompassed all that the pointers provided in class.
“Older people still talk about the social contacts such trade provided– partnerships established and marriages cemeting them. There are stories about how interior peoples initially met coastal traders, about trade routes they followed and about dangers Tlingit traders faced crossing glaciers. Clan traditions tell of the arrival of four Tlingit sisters who married into interior communities to formalize trading partnerships, and of the relaxation of ethnic boundaries between coastal and interior peoples over the years.”
~ Gillian