The Oral History Reader

✍ Scribed by Robert Perks

• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 494
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Oral History Reader edited by Robert Perks and Alistair Thomson, is an international anthology of the key writings about the theory, method and use of oral history. Arranged in five thematic sections, The Oral History Reader details issues in the theory and practice of oral history. The collection covers key debates in the postwar development of oral history including: * problems posed by interviewing discussions of the politics of empowerment analytical strategies for interpreting memories* concerns of archiving, practice, ethics and interpretation. Each section contains an introduction which contextualises the selection by reviewing key isssues and relevant literature. Extensive cross-referencing and indexing provides an aid to research and a crucial comparative dimension. This comprehensive volume illustrates similarities and differences in oral history work from around the world, with examples from North America, Britain, Australasia, Continental Europe, Latin America and Africa. It also details the subjects - such as labour history, women's history, gay and lesbian history, ethnic and indigenous people's history and disability history - to which oral history has made a significant contribution.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Introduction......Page 10
Critical developments Introduction......Page 16
Black history, oral history and genealogy......Page 24
The voice of the past: oral history......Page 36
Oral history and Hard Times: a review essay......Page 44
Movement without aim: methodological and theoretical problems in oral history......Page 53
Work ideology and consensus under Italian fascism......Page 68
What makes oral history different......Page 78
Popular memory: theory, politics, method......Page 90
Telling our stories: feminist debates and the use of oral history......Page 102
Interviewing Introduction......Page 116
On oral history interviewing......Page 122
Ways of listening......Page 129
Life history interviews with people with learning disabilities......Page 141
Family life histories: a collaborative venture......Page 155
Interviewing the women of Phokeng......Page 160
Learning to listen: interview techniques and analyses......Page 172
Marking absences: Holocaust testimony and history......Page 187
Advocacy and empowerment Introduction......Page 198
Oral history as a social movement: reminiscence and older people......Page 204
Reaching across the generations: the Foxfire experience......Page 221
Culture and disability: the role of oral history......Page 229
Central American refugee testimonies and performed life histories in the Sanctuary movement......Page 239
The Gulag in memory......Page 250
The Sahel Oral History Project......Page 261
Leprosy in India: the intervention of oral history......Page 273
Interpreting memories Introduction......Page 284
Structure and validity in oral evidence......Page 288
What is social in oral history?......Page 299
Anzac memories: putting popular memory theory into practice in Australia......Page 315
Theory, method and oral history......Page 326
'That's not what I said': interpretive conflict in oral narrative research......Page 335
Evidence, empathy and ethics: lessons from oral histories of the Klan......Page 348
Telling tales: oral history and the construction of pre-Stonewall lesbian history......Page 359
Making histories Introduction......Page 372
Archival science and oral sources......Page 380
The future of oral history and moving images......Page 394
Perils of the transcript......Page 404
Reminiscence as literacy: intersections and creative moments......Page 408
'What the wind won't take away': the genesis of Nisa;The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman......Page 417
Presenting voices in different media: print, radio and CD-ROM......Page 429
Angledool stories: Aboriginal history in hypermedia......Page 436
Children becoming historians: an oral history project in a primary school......Page 447
The exhibition that speaks for itself: oral history and museums......Page 463
Out of the archives and onto the stage......Page 472
Select bibliography......Page 480
Useful contacts......Page 483
Index......Page 487

✦ Subjects

Исторические дисциплины;Историография, источниковедение и методы исторических исследований;Методы исторического исследования;