This comprehensive 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.' - from back cover
Includes select bibliography.
Second Edition
Onsite
English
sociology,  oral history
2006
578
9780415343039
1
anthology
Part 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 - 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, Sherna Berger GLUCK
Listening in the Cold: The Practice of Oral History in an Argentine Meatpacking Community - Daniel JAMES
Oral History and the Digital Revolution: Toward a Post-Documentary Sensibility - Michael FRISCH
Part II: Interviewing
Interviewing an Interviewer
Learning to Listen: Interview Techniques and Analyses - Kathryn ANDERSON, Dana C. JACK
Ways of Listening - Hugo SLIM, Paul THOMPSON, Olivia BENNETT, Nigel CROSS
Interviewing the Women of Phokeng - 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
Part III: Interpreting Memories
Remembering a Vietnam War Firefight: Changing Perspectives Over Time - Fred H. ALLISON
Surviving Memory: Truth and Inaccuracy in Holocaust Testimony - Mark ROSEMAN
Anzac Memories: Putting Popular Memory Theory into Practice in Australia - Alistair THOMPSON
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, Karen STRASSLER
'That's not What I Said': Interpretative Conflict in Oral Narrative Research - Katherine BORLAND
Evidenve, Empathy and Ethics: Lessons from Oral Histories of the Klan - Kathleen BLEE
Part IV: 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
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
Part V: 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 Transition 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
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