Abstract
This chapter is about the place of personal stories, everyday life, memories and experiences in research on home and identity. The term ‘life stories’ is deliberately broad, and encompasses the study of people in their own words, both in text (including diaries, memoirs, letters, autobiographies and travel writing) and in person (through, for example, oral history interviews, focus group discussions, reminiscence work, and ethnographic research; see also Chapter 6). Life stories are also created, collected, preserved and communicated in other ways too, as shown by collections of tapes, transcripts and videos in libraries, archives, and museums; exhibitions that include extracts from life stories in both oral and written form; theatre productions and other performances based on reminiscence work; and narratives that can be accessed on the Internet.
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