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Two Sisters Family Histories: Self-In-Transit

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Departing from meanings of experiences and experiencing, of memory and poetics, the aim of this article was to describe and analysis the experience of the encounter of two sisters by means of a common ground represented by family narratives. It was based on collaborative auto ethnography. The study involved two sisters that lost their parents and home. The older sister – I—conserved memories of her parents and house; the little one, did not. The main conclusion was that my sister and I constructed narratives that signal something common to both: pointing to the origin in family history.

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Rabinovich, E.P. Two Sisters Family Histories: Self-In-Transit. Integr. psych. behav. 56, 75–83 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-021-09618-8

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