| Appendix of Sources |
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| Acknowledgements |
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| Editor's Introduction: Researching Lives and the Lived Experience |
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PART 1: HISTORICAL ORIGINS AND TRAJECTORIES |
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The Life History and the Scientific Mosaic |
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3 | (11) |
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Herbert Blumer and the Life History Tradition |
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14 | (24) |
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Pioneering the Life Story Method |
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38 | (4) |
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The Life Story Approach: A Continental View |
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42 | (24) |
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Four Paradigm Transformations in Oral History |
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66 | (19) |
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Telling Our Stories: Feminist Debates and the Use of Oral History |
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85 | (24) |
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109 | (16) |
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125 | (5) |
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The Problem of Other Lives: Social Perspectives on Written Biography |
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130 | (12) |
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``Narrative Analysis'' Thirty Years Later |
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142 | (11) |
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Reflections on the Biographical Turn in Social Science |
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153 | (20) |
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Reflections on the Role of Personal Narratives in Social Science |
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173 | (18) |
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Digital Life Stories: Auto/Biography in the Information Age |
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191 | (20) |
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PART 2: THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL ISSUES IN LIFE STORY RESEARCH |
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Is Oral History Auto/Biography? |
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211 | (13) |
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Situating Auto/Biography: Biography and Narrative in the Times and Places of Everyday Life |
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224 | (18) |
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Why Study People's Stories? The Dialogical Ethics of Narrative Analysis |
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242 | (12) |
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Narrative Research and the Challenge of Accumulating Knowledge |
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254 | (9) |
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Who's Talking/Who's Talking Back? The Subject of Personal Narrative |
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263 | (16) |
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279 | (12) |
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Reflections on the Narrative Research Approach |
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291 | (18) |
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Rescuing Narrative from Qualitative Research |
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309 | (10) |
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Life Histories and the Perspective of the Present |
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319 | (21) |
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A Matter of Time: When, since, after Labov and Waletzky |
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340 | (6) |
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PART 2: THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL ISSUES IN LIFE STORY RESEARCH (CONTINUED) |
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A Suitable Time and Place: Speakers' Use of `Time' to Do Discursive Work in Narratives of Nation and Personal Life |
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3 | (20) |
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Individual Remembering and `Collective Memory': Theoretical Presuppositions and Contemporary Debates |
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23 | (14) |
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Creative Memories: Genre, Gender and Language in Latina Autobiographies |
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37 | (16) |
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53 | (15) |
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The Epistolarium: On Theorizing Letters and Correspondences |
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68 | (31) |
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The Narrative Self: Race, Politics, and Culture in Black American Women's Autobiography |
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99 | (16) |
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Personal Narratives, Relational Selves: Residential Histories in the Living and Telling |
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115 | (22) |
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PART 3: TYPES OF LIFE STORY RESEARCH - TRADITIONAL AND NEW SOURCES OF LIFE STORY DATA |
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The Ethnographic Autobiography |
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137 | (12) |
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149 | (22) |
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Called to Account: The CV as an Autobiographical Practice |
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171 | (12) |
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The Personal or `Lonely Hearts' Advertisement as an Auto/Biographical Practice |
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183 | (15) |
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Writing to the Archive: Mass-Observation as Autobiography |
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198 | (14) |
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Tattoo Narratives: The Intersection of the Body, Self-Identity and Society |
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212 | (31) |
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Reconsidering Performative Autobiography: Life Writing and the Beatles |
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243 | (19) |
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Glimpses of Street Life: Representing Lived Experience through Short Stories |
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262 | (18) |
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Photographic Visions and Narrative Inquiry |
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280 | (23) |
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Articulate Image, Painted Diary: Frida Kahlo's Autobiographical Interface |
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303 | (20) |
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Venues of Storytelling: The Circulation of Testimony in Human Rights Campaigns |
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323 | (19) |
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Generic Subjects: Reading Canadian Death Notices as Life Writing |
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342 | (13) |
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Narrative Practice and the Coherence of Personal Stories |
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PART 3: TYPES OF LIFE STORY RESEARCH - TRADITIONAL AND NEW SOURCES OF LIFE STORY DATA (CONTINUED) |
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Life ``on Holiday''? In Defense of Big Stories |
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Psychoanalytic Narratives: Writing the Self into Contemporary Cultural Phenomena |
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Writing the Self versus Writing the Other: Comparing Autobiographical and Life History Data |
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24 | (7) |
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Confidantes, Co-Workers and Correspondents: Feminist Discourses of Letter-Writing from 1970 to the Present |
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31 | (18) |
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PART 4: DOING LIFE STORY RESEARCH |
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The Makings of Mother in Diary Narratives |
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49 | (23) |
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Biography as Microscope or Kaleidoscope: The Case of `Power' in Hannah Cullwick's Relationship with Arthur Munby |
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72 | (21) |
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Narratives of the Night: The Use of Audio Diaries in Researching Sleep |
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93 | (25) |
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Careful What You Ask for: Reconsidering Feminist Epistemology and Autobiographical Narrative in Research on Sexual Identity Development |
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118 | (19) |
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The Biographical-Interpretative Method - Principles and Procedures |
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137 | (28) |
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Eliciting Narrative through the In-Depth Interview |
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165 | (19) |
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Questioning the Subject in Biographical Interviewing |
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184 | (20) |
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Constructing Meaningful Lives: Biographical Methods in Research on Migrant Women |
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204 | (24) |
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Researching Chinese Women's Lives: `Insider' Research and Life History Interviewing |
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228 | (15) |
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Shifting Gears in Life History Research: The Case of an Assimilated American Jewish Woman in Palestine/Israel, 1989-1991 |
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243 | (15) |
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Telling Lesbian Stories: Interviewing and the Class Dynamics of `Talk' |
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258 | (17) |
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But Sometimes You're Not Part of the Story: Oral Histories and Ways of Remembering and Telling |
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275 | (28) |
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Listen to Their Voices: Two Case Studies in the Interpretation of Oral History Interviews |
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303 | (19) |
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Loss, Collective Memory and Transcripted Oral Histories |
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322 | (15) |
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Imaginary Pictures, Real Life Stories: The FotoDialogo Method |
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337 | (39) |
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`Researching Identities with Multi-Method Autobiographies' |
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376 | (22) |
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Showing and Telling Asthma: Children Teaching Physicians with Visual Narrative |
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PART 4: DOING LIFE STORY RESEARCH (CONTINUED) |
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A Story behind a Story: Developing Strategies for Making Sense of Teacher Narratives |
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3 | (21) |
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Content, Context, Reflexivity and the Qualitative Research Encounter: Telling Stories in the Virtual Realm |
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24 | (20) |
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Technobiography: Researching Lives, Online and Off |
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44 | (19) |
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The Use of Biographical Material in Intellectual History: Writing about Alva and Gunnar Myrdal's Contribution to Sociology |
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63 | (24) |
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Tracing Heterotopias: Writing Women Educators in Greece |
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87 | (26) |
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PART 5: RESEARCH CONTEXTS AND LIFE STORIES |
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Against Good Advice: Reflections on Conducting Research in a Country Where You Don't Speak the Language |
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113 | (11) |
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Narratives of Challenging Research: Stirring Tales of Politics and Practice |
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124 | (22) |
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Ethics and Institutions in Biographical Writing on Indonesian Subjects |
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146 | (16) |
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A Note on the Ethical Issues in the Use of Autobiography in Sociological Research |
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162 | (9) |
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Exporting Ethics: A Narrative about Narrative Research in South India |
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171 | (19) |
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Catherine Kohler Riessman |
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Snippets and Silences: Ethics and Reflexivity in Narratives of Sistering |
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190 | (22) |
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Telling Secrets, Revealing Lives: Relational Ethics in Research with Intimate Others |
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212 | (25) |
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Collaboration and Censorship in the Oral History Interview |
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237 | (23) |
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Mythical Moments in National and Other Family Histories |
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260 | (16) |
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Re/Membering (to) Shifting Alignments: Korean Women's Transnational Narratives in US Higher Education |
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276 | (24) |
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Generational Shifts in Post-Holocaust Australian Jewish Autobiography |
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300 | (18) |
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From Interview to Story: Writing Abbie's Life |
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318 | (26) |
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Christine Elizabeth Kiesinger |
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Distressing Histories and Unhappy Interviewing |
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344 | (16) |
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Inviting Intimacy: The Interview as Therapeutic Opportunity |
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360 | (16) |
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The Healing Effects of Storytelling: On the Conditions of Curative Storytelling in the Context of Research and Counseling |
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376 | (20) |
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Autoethnography and Narratives of Self: Reflections on Criteria in Action |
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396 | (27) |
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Fidelity as a Criterion for Practicing and Evaluating Narrative Inquiry |
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423 | (15) |
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Validity Issues in Narrative Research |
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