By Charlotte Linde

tales advised inside of associations play a robust function, assisting to outline not just the establishment itself, but in addition its person contributors. How do associations use tales? How do these tales either safeguard the previous and form the longer term? To what volume does narrative build either collective and person identity?

Charlotte Linde's precise and far-reaching examine addresses those questions by way of the interaction of narratives, reminiscence, and id in a wide coverage corporation. Her specific ethnography appears on the function of reports in the establishment and the way they're hired via its individuals in either deepest and team settings. studying the re-telling of sure key tales, she exhibits how the formation of "core" tales and their a number of re-tellings and transformations supply a method of formulating and selling a cohesive team id -- which in flip shapes the tales and identities of the members in the collective. Linde additionally seems at silences, and the way tales now not instructed additionally express their model of the past.

Working the Past indicates how tales that would rather be noticeable as a part of mundane way of life are actually completely necessary to the formation and upkeep of person and staff identification. Her unique examine will attract these drawn to narrative reviews, linguistics, anthropology, sociology, and institutional memory.

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