This edition in the Memory and Narrative series, brings together, contributions from the Americas and Asia as well as from Western and Eastern Europe. They combine the techniques of life story research with the insights of family therapy.

Introduction to the Transaction Edition/PAUL THOMPSON -- List of Contributors -- i. Introduction/DANIEL BERTAUX and PAUL THOMPSON -- 2. Family myth, models, and denials in the shaping of individual life paths/Paul Thompson -- 3. The Pull of family ties: intergenerational relationships and life paths/Isabelle Bertaux-Waime -- 4. Religion, family, and industry in the transmission of values: the case of women textile workers in Antioquia, Colombia/Luz Gabriela Arango -- 5. Social change, family histories, and attitudes to money in a rural community in Epirus/Klimis Navridis -- 6. Attitudes towards marriage and divorce among women in modern China/Weiyan Farmer -- 7. A Hitler youth from a respectable family: the narrative composition and destruction of a life story/Reinhard Sieder -- 8. Transgenerational transmission in the families of Holocaust survivors in England/Natasha Burchardt -- 9. Grandmothers, mothers, and daughters: intergenerational transmission in displaced families in three Jewish communities/Lena Inowlocki -- 10.Memory of slavery in black families of São Paulo, Brazil/Maria de Lourdes Monaco Janotti & Zita de Paula Rosa -- 11. Spoken and unspoken words in the life of a Cypriot woman: a life story by her granddaughter/Elena Georgiou -- 12. Kichuk Paris: a Bulgarian family story/Valentina Stoev.