ABSTRACT
In biographical accounts of semiliterate or nonliterate people, the distinction between biography and autobiography is often difficult to make, given problems of editing, translation, and directing of narrations. Consequently, as Langness has observed, some anthropologists prefer to use the term “life history” to cover the extensive account of a person’s life, whether written or narrated by that person, by others, or by both (Langness 1965:4–5).
