Abstract
There has been very little consideration of how life history work by a researcher might be viewed from the perspective of the older research informant. This article concerns differences in perspectives on life history research by informant and researcher. I discuss these through an examination of two different processes of understanding life events: the life review on the part of the informant and the collection of life historical data on the part of the researcher. They are seen as both independent processes and interacting engagements that incorporate distinctive concerns. To better understand the relationship of these, researchers need to specify two sets of key variables subsuming technical and interactional aspects of life history work and which may include life review work on the part of older informants. These topics are explored in a lengthy case presentation and its analysis.
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