Title & Author:

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

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Description:

xiv, 578 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 560-563) and index.
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.

Summary:

These key writings cover topics such as the problems posed by interviewing, discussions of the politics of empowerment, analytical strategies for interpreting memories, and concerns of archiving, practice, ethics and interpretation.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

041534302X (hbk.)
9780415343022 (hbk.)
0415343038 (pbk.)
9780415343039 (pbk.)

Subject:

Oral history.
Histoire orale.
Mondelinge geschiedenis (wetenschap)
interview.
data collecting.
methodology.
ethics.
mass media.
history.
collecte des données.
méthodologie.
éthique.
mass média.
histoire.
entrevista.
recopilación de datos.
metodología.
ética.
medios de comunicación de masas.
historia.
ORAL HISTORY.
Historical

Form/genre:

oral histories (literary works)
Oral histories
Histoires orales.

Added entries:

Perks, Robert.
Thomson, Alistair.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 261592
Call No.: BIB 192611
Status: Available