1. Preface; 2. Transcription symbols; 3. Chapter 1. From narrative/text to small stories/practices; 4. 1.0 Introduction; 5. 1.1 Narrative as talk-in-interaction; 6. 1.2 Narrative and social practice: Beyond the here-and-now of local interactions; 7. 1.3 Narrative and identities; 8. 1.4 Methodological perspectives: Ethnographies of narrative events; 9. Chapter 2. Beyond the narrative canon: Small stories in action; 10. 2.1 The canon; 11. 2.2 Types of small stories; 12. 2.3 Interactional features; 13. 2.4 Conclusion: Small stories in context; 14. Chapter 3. Narrative structure in small stories; 15. 3.1 Narrative structure beyond Labov; 16. 3.2 Structure as sequence; 17. 3.3 The emergence of structure; 18. 3.4 The temporalization of structure; 19. 3.5 Narrative structure and/in narrative genres; 20. 3.6 Time and place in projections: Sequential, emergent and temporalized; 21. 3.7 Conclusion; 22. Chapter 4. Small stories and identities; 23. 4.1 From storytelling roles to large identities; 24. 4.2 A toolkit for identity analysis; 25. 4.3 Telling and social roles close up; 26. 4.4 Conclusion: Small stories and identities in social practice; 27. Chapter 5. Positioning self and other in small stories; 28. 5.1 Narrative identities and positioning; 29. 5.2. Positioning cues and small stories; 30. 5.3 Positionings of other as gendered performances; 31. 5.4 From other-positionings to self-identities; 32. 5.5 Small stories as fantasies; 33. Conclusion: Small stories as the new narrative turn; 34. From big stories to small stories; 35. Small stories as social practices; 36. Small stories as a new perspective in narrative analysis; 37. Small stories and identities: premises and implications; 38. Appendix; 39. References; 40. Name index; 41. Subject index