Abstract
In a special number of Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie devoted to the collection of life histories,' Frangoise Morin of the Universite de Toulouse asks why French sociologists have only recently discovered the life history as a means of understanding cultures and the researcher's place in the study of them (Morin 1980: 317). Morin proposes that the use of life histories has been essentially a North American tradition, suggesting that the inherent subjectivity and lack of distance of the researcher from the object of study have frightened away French anthropologists and sociologists who have been for the most part in search of structures and objective categories. A recent upsurge of interest in life histories on the part of French social
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