...This chapter illustrates how law and personal identity interacted in Renaissance Florence in the delightfully complicated case of a legitimated bastard who was a murderer and who, with top-notch legal assistance, successfully laid claim to his dead father's estate. It explores the identity forged...

... of personal identity. ethnographic studies ethics in Foucault Michel identity and balance loss and bereavement Montaigne Michel de social anthropology culture shock in writing anthropological ethnographic Kuranko people La Barre Weston behavior and experience fire building techniques Ricoeur Paul...

....” It also challenges the reliability on literary models that treat narratives as texts to be read, because these supposedly presume more coherence than one finds in everyday storytelling. Finally, the chapter reflects on the relationship between narrative and personal identity, and reviews some...

...This chapter interweaves autobiography with material from the author's ethnographic research in order to examine the complicated relationship between illness narratives, illness experience, and personal identity. The author uses the stories to comment about the surprises of illness and how...

... worlds, which shaped Christian and civic ideals, was preserved and ordered in the construction of a house of memory. Michele del Giogante was an accountant who compiled some of the most interesting anthologies, several of which contained a memory treatise. Popular culture and Michele's personal identity...

...The discussion of sex in American culture changed between World War II and the mid-1960s. Historians and observers at the time documented intensified attention to sexual issues in civic culture as sexuality became viewed as central to personal identity, as knowable, and as accessible to measurement...

..., and personal identity feeds into specific musical texts, the author examines most of Britten's operas as well as his role in the British cultural establishment of the mid-twentieth century. Some of these essays appear here for the first time. The book develops a complex understanding of Britten's musical...