Remembered Lives: The Work of Ritual, Storytelling, and Growing Older

by Barbara Myerhoff, Marc Kaminsky (Editor)

This volume collects and reprints the most important essays of the late Barbara Myerhoff. The excellent introductory essay by Marc Kaminsky effectively relates Myerhoff's work to important theoretical trends in anthropology and cultural studies from the mid-1980s. His essay is a major contribution to this volume and an appropriate guide and framing for the essays that follow.

400 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 1992

About the author

Myerhoff was an anthropologist, a filmmaker, and the founder of the Center for Visual Anthropology at the University of Southern California.

Myerhoff is best known for her work with the Jewish community in Venice, California. This was first documented in the 1976 ethnographic film Number Our Days, directed by Lynne Littman. She published the book Number Our Days in 1979. Number Our Days was performed as a play at the Mark Taper Forum in 1982.

Her next project, In Her Own Time was taken over by Lynne Littman and Vikram Jayanti when Myerhoff was diagnosed with cancer. She died in 1985.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Reviews

[Ke · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the consequences of global modernization is that the elders are no longer as respected as in traditional cultures. I believe this book can help people change that attitude.