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Book SynopsisA critical assessment of collective memories, small world stories, and other allegories of everyday life
Trade Review"A major and positively delightful work from one of the most consistently thoughtful, rigorous, engaging, and provocative scholars in the field." --Don Brenneis, past president of the American Anthropological Association
"Empathy for the suffering of other humans is assumed to be one of the grounds for moral action. It is an unexamined assumption. In
Other People's Stories, Shuman undertakes a critique of empathy, rooted in the examination of what she calls stories that travel: subversive stories, emancipatory stories, redemptive stories, and that astonishing and quirky new genre: small world stories. The book is bold, philosophically profound, and ethnographically adventurous."--Katharine Young, author of
Taleworlds and Storyrealms: The Phenomenology of Narrative"A fascinating and timely study that offers convincing assessments of the stories and coincidences of everyday life."--Robert Barsky, author of
Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent
