| Description |
1 online resource (198 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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data file rda |
| Note |
"Documentation, representation, presentation, and interpretation, illustrated with stories from South Africa, Alaska, and the Yukon." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-190) and index. |
| Contents |
How Stories Work -- Introduction -- A Career Full of Stories -- What's in a Story -- Sorting Out Oral Tradition and Oral History -- Types of Stories -- Personal Narratives: Shared One to Another -- Gathering to Tell Stories: The Neglected Genre in Oral History -- In Search of the Story: Interviewers and Their Narrators -- Life Histories: The Constructed Genre -- Issues Raised by Stories -- The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth -- Issues of Representation -- Intellectual Property Rights and the Public: Unfinished Business -- The Public Record. |
| Summary |
Illuminated by numerous stories collected from Alaska, the Yukon, and South Africa and further enlivened by the author's accessible style and experiences as a longtime oral historian and archivist, So They Understand is a comprehensive study of the special challenges and concerns involved in documenting, representing, preserving, and interpreting oral narratives. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Oral tradition.
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Oral history.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Oral history. (OCoLC)fst01047055
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Oral tradition. (OCoLC)fst01047117
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Mondelinge geschiedenis (wetenschap)
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Verhalen.
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Culturele verschillen.
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Culturele aspecten.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schneider, William S., 1946- --so they understand. Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©2002 0874215501 (DLC) 2002011651 (OCoLC)50253099 |
| ISBN |
0874214882 (electronic bk.) |
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9780874214888 (electronic bk.) |
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0874215501 (paperback;) (alk. paper) |
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9780874215502 (paperback;) (alk. paper) |
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