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The oral history reader / cedited by Robert Perks and Alistair Thomson.

Contributor(s): Perks, Robert | Thomson, Alistair.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2006Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xiv, 578 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 041534302X; 0415343038.Subject(s): Oral historyDDC classification: 907.2
Contents:
Black history, oral history, and genealogy / Alex Haley -- The voice of the past : oral history / Paul Thompson -- What makes oral history different / Alessandro Portelli -- Popular memory : theory, politics, method / 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 and 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 -- Interviewing an interviewer / Studs Terkel with Tony Parker -- Learning to listen : interview techniques and analyses / Kathryn Anderson and Dana C. Jack -- Ways of listening : different approaches to interviewing / Hugo Slim and Paul Thompson, with Olivia Bennett and 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 -- 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 -- 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 and Graeme Miller -- Cyber-teaching in the oral history classroom / Rina Benmayor -- Reminiscence and oral history : parallel universes or shared endeavour? / Joanna Bornat -- Voices of experience : oral history in the classroom / Cliff Kuhn and 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 and Mark McGovern -- The Sahel oral history project / Nigel Cross and Rhiannon Barker -- Leprosy in India : the intervention of oral history / Sanjiv Kakar.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This greatly anticipated update of The Oral History Readeris a comprehensive, international anthology of major, 'classic' articles and cutting-edge pieces on the theory, method and use of oral history.

This wide-ranging volume illustrates similarities and differences in oral history from around the world, including examples from North and South America, Britain and Europe, Australasia, Asia and Africa. It also details the subjects - such as women's history, family history, gay and lesbian history, ethnic history and disability history - to which oral history has made a significant contribution.

This second edition is arranged into five thematic sections. The collection details issues in the theory and practice of oral history and covers influential debates in its development over the past sixty years. New chapters include:

interview methods and the oral history relationship the use of testimony in truth and reconciliation politics memory and interpretation the digital revolution and new technologies for the creation, use and dissemination of oral history community oral history projects memory and history.

The Oral History Readeris an essential tool for all students of modern history, memory studies, sociology, anthropology, media studies, cultural and heritage studies, gerontology and archives, library and information studies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Black history, oral history, and genealogy / Alex Haley -- The voice of the past : oral history / Paul Thompson -- What makes oral history different / Alessandro Portelli -- Popular memory : theory, politics, method / 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 and 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 -- Interviewing an interviewer / Studs Terkel with Tony Parker -- Learning to listen : interview techniques and analyses / Kathryn Anderson and Dana C. Jack -- Ways of listening : different approaches to interviewing / Hugo Slim and Paul Thompson, with Olivia Bennett and 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 -- 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 -- 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 and Graeme Miller -- Cyber-teaching in the oral history classroom / Rina Benmayor -- Reminiscence and oral history : parallel universes or shared endeavour? / Joanna Bornat -- Voices of experience : oral history in the classroom / Cliff Kuhn and 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 and Mark McGovern -- The Sahel oral history project / Nigel Cross and Rhiannon Barker -- Leprosy in India : the intervention of oral history / Sanjiv Kakar.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction to second edition
  • Part 1 Critical developments
  • Introduction
  • 1 Black history, oral history and genealogy
  • 2 The voice of the past: oral history
  • 3 What makes oral history different
  • 4 Popular memory: theory, politics, method Popular Memory Group
  • 5 'Do I like them too much?': effects of the oral history interview on the interviewer and vice-versa
  • 6 Reflections on women's oral history: an exchange
  • 7 'Listening in the cold': the practice of oral history in an argentine working-class community
  • 8 Oral history and the digital revolution: toward a post-documentary sensibility
  • Part 2 Interviewing
  • Introduction
  • 9 Interviewing an interviewer
  • 10 Learning to listen: interview techniques and analyses
  • 11 Ways of listening: different approaches to interviewing
  • 12 Interviewing the women of Phokeng: consciousness and gender, insider and outsider
  • 13 Issues in cross-cultural interviewing: Japanese women in England
  • 14 Family myths, memories and interviewing
  • 15 Life history interviews with people with learning disabilities
  • 16 Navigating life review interviews with survivors of trauma
  • Part 3 Interpreting memories
  • Introduction
  • Remembering a vietnam war firefight: changing perspectives over time
  • 18 Surviving memory: truth and inaccuracy in holocaust testimony
  • 19 Anzac memories: putting popular memory theory into practice in Australia
  • 20 Structure and validity in oral evidence
  • 21 Oral history and the study of communities: problems, paradoxes and possibilities
  • 22 Telling tales: oral history and the construction of pre-stonewall lesbian history
  • 23 Memory work in java: a cautionary tale
  • 24 'That's not what I said': interpretative conflict in oral narrative research
  • 25 Evidence, empathy and ethics: lessons from oral histories of the Klan
  • Part 4 Making histories Introduction
  • 26 Oral history in the archives: its documentary role in the twenty-first century
  • 27 Voice, ear and text: words, meaning and transcription
  • 28 Reminiscence as literacy: intersections and creative moments
  • 29 'What the wind won't take away': the genesis of Nisa - the life and words of a !kung woman
  • 30 Authoring in sound: aural history, radio and the digital revolution
  • 31 The future of oral history and moving images
  • 32 The exhibition that speaks for itself: oral history and museums
  • 3 Linked: a landmark in sound, a public walk of art
  • 34 Cyber-teaching in the oral history classroom
  • Part 5 Advocacy and empowerment
  • Introduction
  • 35 Reminiscence and oral history: parallel universes or shared endeavour?
  • 36 Voices of experience: oral history in the classroom
  • 37 'We know what the problem is': using video and radio oral history to develop collaborative analysis of homelessness
  • 38 Central american refugee testimonies and performed life histories in the sanctuary movement
  • 39 Stolen generations testimony: trauma, historiography and the question of 'truth'

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