| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Description |
xiv, 578 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Critical developments. Black history, oral history and genealogy / Alex Haley -- The voice of the past: oral history / Paul Thompson -- What makes oral history different / Popular memory: theory, politics, method / Alessandro Portelli -- Popular memory group -- 'Do I like them too much?': effects of the oral history interview on the interviewer and vice-versa / Valerie Yow -- Reflections on women's oral history: an exchange / Susan H. Armitage, Sherna Berger Gluck -- Listening in the cold: the practice of oral history in an Argentine working-class community / Daniel James -- Oral history and the digital revolution: toward a post-documentary sensibility / Michael Frisch -- pt. 2. Interviewing. Interviewing an interviewer / Studs Terkel, Tony Parker -- Learning to listen: interview techniques and analyses / Kathryn Anderson, Dana C. Jack -- Ways of listening: different approaches to interviewing / Hugo Slim, Paul Thompson, Olivia Bennett, Nigel Cross -- Interviewing the women of Phokeng: consciousness and gender, insider and outsider / Belinda Bozzoli -- Issues in cross-cultural interviewing: Japanese women in England / Susan K Burton -- Family myths, memories and interviewing / Ruth Finnegan -- Life history interviews with people with learning disabilities / Jan Walmsley -- Navigating life review interviews with survivors of trauma / Mark Klempner -- pt. 3. Interpreting memories. Remembering a Vietnam War firefight: changing perspectives over time / Fred Allison -- Surviving memory: truth and inaccuracy in Holocaust testimony / Mark Roseman -- Anzac Memories: putting popular memory theory into practice in Australia / Alistair Thomson -- Structure and validity in oral evidence / Trevor Lummis -- Oral history and the study of communities: problems, paradoxes and possibilities / Linda Shopes -- Telling Tales: oral history and the construction of pre-Stonewall lesbian history / Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy -- Memory work in Java: a cautionary tale / Ann Laura Stoler with Karen Strassler -- That's not what I said: interpretative conflict in oral narrative research / Katherine Borland -- Evidence, empathy and ethics: lessons from oral histories of the Klan / Kathleen Blee -- pt. 4. Making histories. Oral history in the archives: its documentary role in the twenty-first century / Ellen D. Swain -- Voice, ear and text: words, meaning and transcription / Francis Good -- 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 -- Authoring in sound: aural history, radio and the digital revolution / Charles Hardy III -- The future of oral history and moving images / Dan Sipe -- The exhibition that speaks for itself: oral history and museums / Anna Green -- Linked: a landmark in sound, a public walk of art / Toby Butler, Graeme Miller -- Cyber-teaching in the oral history classroom / Rina Benmayor -- pt. 5. Advocacy and empowerment. Reminiscence and oral history: parallel universes or shared endeavour? / Joanna Bornat -- Voices of experience: oral history in the classroom / Cliff Kuhn, Marjorie L. McLellan -- We know what the problem is: using video and radio oral history to develop collaborative analysis of homelessness / Daniel Kerr -- Central American refugee testimonies and performed life histories in the sanctuary movement / William Westerman -- Stolen Generations testimony: trauma, historiography and the question of 'truth' / Rosanne Kennedy -- The Gulag in memory / Irina Sherbakova -- You understand again: testimony and post-conflict resolution in the north of Ireland / Patricia Lundy, Mark McGovern -- The Sahel oral history project / Nigel Cross, Rhiannon Barker -- Leprosy in India: the intervention of oral history / Sanjiv Kakar. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [560]-563) and index. |
| Subject |
Oral history.
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| Indexed Term |
Historical |
| Added Author |
Perks, Robert.
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Thomson, Alistair.
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| ISBN |
041534302X hardback |
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0415343038 paperback |
| Standard No. |
9780415343022 (hbk.) |
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9780415343039 (pbk.) |
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