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Narrating Troubling Experiences

Linda C. Garro

University of California at Los Angeles

This article presents a process-oriented perspective that relates to the broad question of how self-related experience comes to be endowed with meaning. The approach highlights the implications of `living by' particular culturally based understandings in specific contexts and centers on how jointly cultural, social, and cognitive processes offer potentialities for orienting the experiential self without determining self-related experiences. This process-oriented perspective revolves around the interplay between the range of historically contingent cultural resources available for endowing experience with meaning and the socially and structurally grounded processes through which individuals learn about, orient towards and traffic in interpretive plausibilities - a socially situated experientially based process. This perspective is informed by, and provides an entree for exploring, variability within a cultural setting. The narrative accounts examined are from individuals who grew up speaking either Ojibwa or Cree (both Algonkian languages) in First Nations communities in Manitoba, Canada.

Key Words: cross-cultural view of the self • cultural processes • illness narratives • intracultural variation • self-related experience

Transcultural Psychiatry, Vol. 40, No. 1, 5-43 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/1363461503040001001
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