Bibliogr. dissém.

Preface / Hofer, Tamas -- Beauty, Wealth and Power : Career choise for women in folktales and modern media / Dégh, Linda -- Life-Course as Cultural Construct : Anthropological Approaches (Summary) / Hofer, Tamàs -- Unsung Heroines : Cultural models of gender roles and selfhood in Marathi autobiographies / Apte, Mahadev L. -- Legends as Life Strategies for Aspirant Saints in the Later Middle Ages / Klaniczay, Gabor -- Life Models as Mirrored in Personal Recited Laments / Domotor, Takla -- Authoring Lives / Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara -- Generating Lives : The construction of autobiology / Oring, Elliott -- Why Do People Lie? Origins of the biographical legend pattern / Voigt, Vilmos -- The Performance Career of a Texas Storyteller / Bauman, Richard -- Shaping Selves, Reshaping Lives : The art and experience of Helen Cordero / Babcock, Barbara -- Biographic Items in Yugoslav and Italian Death Notices / Rihtman-Augustin, Dunja -- Exile as Life Career Model / Carpenter, Inta -- The Biographical Method in the Study of Jewish Identity in Present-Day Hungary / Eros, Ferenc ; Kovacs, Andras -- Identity Models and Identity Construction / Pataki, Ferenc -- Migrating Inward and Out : Validating life-course transitions through oral autobiography / Huseby-Darvas, Eva V. -- Memory and Discourse in Oral History : Autoworkers at studebaker / Bodnar, John -- From the Stories of Life to the Life History : Historic context, social process and the biographical method / Niedermuller, Peter -- Constructions of Life / Bausinger, Hermann.