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The oral history reader

✍ Scribed by Perks, Robert;Thomson, Alistair


Publisher
Routledge
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Leaves
494
Category
Library

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pt. I. Critical developments. Black history, oral history and genealogy / Alex Haley ; The voice of the past : oral history / Paul Thompson ; Oral history and Hard times : a review essay / Michael Frisch ; Movement without aim : methodological and theoretical problems in oral history / Ronald J. Grele -- Work ideology and consensus under Italian fascism / Luisa Passerini ; What makes oral history different / Alessandro Portelli ; Popular memory : theory, politics, method / Popular Memory Group ; Telling our stories : feminist debates and the use of oral history / Joan Sangster -- pt. II. Interviewing. On oral history interviewing / Charles T. Morrissey ; Ways of listening / Hugo slim [and others] ; Life history interviews with people with learning disabilities / Jan Walmsley ; Family life histories : a collaborative venture / Akemi Kikumura ; Interviewing the women of Phokeng / Belinda Bozzoli ; Learning to listen : interview techniques and analyses / Kathryn Anderson and Dana C. Jack ; Marking absences : Holocaust testimony and history / Naomi Rosh White -- pt. III. Advocacy and empowerment. Oral history as a social movement : reminiscence and older people / Joanna Bornat ; Reaching across the generations : the Foxfire experience / Eliot Wigginton ; Culture and disability : the role of oral history / Karen Hirsch ; Central American refugee testimonies and performed life histories in the Sanctuary movement / William Westerman ; The Gulag in memory / Irina Sherbakova ; The Sahel Oral History Project / Nigel Cross and Rhiannon Barker ; Leprosy in India : the intervention of oral history / Sanjiv Kakar -- pt. IV. Interpreting memories. Structure and validity in oral evidence / Trevor Lummis ; What is social in oral history? / Samuel Schrager ; Anzac memories : putting popular memory theory into practice in Australia / Alistair Thomson ; Theory, method and oral history / Peter Friedlander ; 'That's not what I said' : interpretive conflict in oral narrative research / Katherine Borland ; Evidence, empathy and ethics : lessons from oral histories of the Klan / Kathleen Blee ; Telling tales : oral history and the construction of pre-Stonewall lesbian history / Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy -- pt. V. Making histories. Archival science and oral sources / Jean-Pierre Wallot and Normand Fortier ; The future of oral history and moving images / Dan Sipe ; Perils of the transcript / Raphael Samuel ; Reminiscence as literacy : intersections and creative moments / Jane Mace ; 'What the wind won't take away' : the genesis of Nisa -- the life and words of a!Kung woman / Marjorie Shostak ; Presenting voices in different media : print, radio and CD-ROM / Peter Read ; Angledool stories : aboriginal history in hypermedia / Karen Flick and Heather Goodall ; Children becoming historians : an oral history project in a primary school / Alistair Ross ; The exhibition that speaks for itself : oral history and museums / Anna Green ; Out of the archives and onto the stage / Shaun Nethercott and Neil Leighton.;This international anthology of the key writings about the theory, method and use of oral history is arranged in five thematic sections. It details issues in the theory and practice of oral history and covers key debates in its postwar development including: problems posed by interviewing; analytical strategies for interpreting memories; and concerns of archiving, practice, ethics and interpretation. Using examples from around the world, this comprehensive volume also details subjects such as the history of labour, women, homosexuals, ethnic groups and the disabled.

✦ Table of Contents


pt. I. Critical developments. Black history, oral history and genealogy / Alex Haley
The voice of the past : oral history / Paul Thompson
Oral history and Hard times : a review essay / Michael Frisch
Movement without aim : methodological and theoretical problems in oral history / Ronald J. Grele --
Work ideology and consensus under Italian fascism / Luisa Passerini
What makes oral history different / Alessandro Portelli
Popular memory : theory, politics, method / Popular Memory Group
Telling our stories : feminist debates and the use of oral history / Joan Sangster --
pt. II. Interviewing. On oral history interviewing / Charles T. Morrissey
Ways of listening / Hugo slim [and others]
Life history interviews with people with learning disabilities / Jan Walmsley
Family life histories : a collaborative venture / Akemi Kikumura
Interviewing the women of Phokeng / Belinda Bozzoli
Learning to listen : interview techniques and analyses / Kathryn Anderson and Dana C. Jack
Marking absences : Holocaust testimony and history / Naomi Rosh White --
pt. III. Advocacy and empowerment. Oral history as a social movement : reminiscence and older people / Joanna Bornat
Reaching across the generations : the Foxfire experience / Eliot Wigginton
Culture and disability : the role of oral history / Karen Hirsch
Central American refugee testimonies and performed life histories in the Sanctuary movement / William Westerman
The Gulag in memory / Irina Sherbakova
The Sahel Oral History Project / Nigel Cross and Rhiannon Barker
Leprosy in India : the intervention of oral history / Sanjiv Kakar --
pt. IV. Interpreting memories. Structure and validity in oral evidence / Trevor Lummis
What is social in oral history? / Samuel Schrager
Anzac memories : putting popular memory theory into practice in Australia / Alistair Thomson
Theory, method and oral history / Peter Friedlander
'That's not what I said' : interpretive conflict in oral narrative research / Katherine Borland
Evidence, empathy and ethics : lessons from oral histories of the Klan / Kathleen Blee
Telling tales : oral history and the construction of pre-Stonewall lesbian history / Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy --
pt. V. Making histories. Archival science and oral sources / Jean-Pierre Wallot and Normand Fortier
The future of oral history and moving images / Dan Sipe
Perils of the transcript / Raphael Samuel
Reminiscence as literacy : intersections and creative moments / Jane Mace
'What the wind won't take away' : the genesis of Nisa --
the life and words of a!Kung woman / Marjorie Shostak
Presenting voices in different media : print, radio and CD-ROM / Peter Read
Angledool stories : aboriginal history in hypermedia / Karen Flick and Heather Goodall
Children becoming historians : an oral history project in a primary school / Alistair Ross
The exhibition that speaks for itself : oral history and museums / Anna Green
Out of the archives and onto the stage / Shaun Nethercott and Neil Leighton.

✦ Subjects


Histoire orale;History--Methodology;Oral history;Electronic books;History -- Methodology


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