The Oral History Reader

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

London ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2016

Subject:

Oral history

Contributor:

Perks, Robert, editor
Thomson, Alistair, editor

ISBN:

9780415707329, 0415707323, 9780415707336, and 0415707331

Series:

Routledge readers in history

Description:

xx, 721 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Part I. Critical developments: introduction -- Black history, oral history and genealogy /Alex Haley -- The voice of the past: oral history /Paul Thompson -- Oral history and hard times: a review essay /Michael Frisch -- What makes oral history different /Alessandro Portelli -- Politics and praxis in Canadian workng-class oral history /Joan Sangster -- 'Listening in the cold': the practice of oral history in an Argentine working-class community /Daniel James -- What remains: reflections on crisis oral history /Mark Cave -- Oral history and the senses /Paula Hamilton -- 'I just want to click on it to listen': oral history archives, orality and usability /Dougls A. Boyd -- Part II. Interviewing -- Interviewing an interviewer /Studs Terkel with Tony Parker -- Interviewing techniques and strategies /Valerie Yow -- Learning to listen: interview techniques and analysis /Kathryn Andeson and Dana C. Jack -- Remembering in groups: negotiating between 'individual' and 'collective' memories /Graham Smith -- Interviewing the women of Phokeng: consciousness and gender insider and outside /Belinda Bozzoli -- Isues in cross-cultural interviewing: Japanese women in England /Susan K. Burton -- Reticence in oral history interviews /Lenore Layman -- Toward an ethics of silence? negotiating off-the-record events and identity in oral history /Alexander Freund -- Imaging family memories: my mum, her photographs, our memories /Janis Wilton -- Interviewing in business and corporate environments: benefits and challenges /Rob Perks -- Part III. Interpreting memories -- Remembering survival: inside a Nazi slave-labor camp /Christopher R. Browning -- Surviving memory: truth and inaccuracy in Holocaust testimony /Mark Roseman -- Remembering a Vietnam war firefight: changing perspectives over time /Fred Allison -- Anzac memories: putting popular memory theory into practice in Australia /Alistair Thomson -- Private life in Stalin's Russia: narratives, memory and oral history /Orlando Figes -- Memory work in java: a cautionary tale /Ann Laura Stoler with Karen Strassler -- Sex, 'silence' and audiotape: listening for female same-sex desire in Cuba /Carrie Hamilton -- '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 -- Remembering and reworking emotions: the reanalysis of emotion in an interview /Joanna Bornat -- Part IV. Making histories -- Voice, ear and text: words, meaning and transcription /Francis Good -- Editing oral history for publication /Linda Shopes -- The affective power of sound: oral historyon radio /Siobhán McHugh -- Foundling voices: placing oral history at the heart of an oral history exhibition /Sarah Lowry and Alison Duke -- Co-creating our story: making a documentary film /Megan Webster and Noelia Gravotta -- The historical hearing aid: located oral history from the listener's perspective /Toby Butler -- Mapping memories of displacement: oral history, memoryscapes and mobile methodologies /Steven Hugh -- Part V. Advocacy and empowerment -- Imagining communities: memory, loss and resilience in post-apartheid cape town /Sean Field -- Sound, memory and dis/placement: exploring sound, song and performance as oral history in the southern African borerlands /Angela Impey -- 'You hear it in their voice': photographs and cultural consolidaton among Inuit youths and elders /Carol Payne -- 'We know what the problem is': using video and radio oral history to develop collaboratve analysis of homelessness /Daniel Kerr -- Trying to be good: lessons in oral history and performance /Alicia J. Rouverol -- Oral history and new orthodoxies: narrative accounts in the history of learning disability /Sheena Rolph and Jan Walmsley -- The limits of oral history: ethics and methodology amid highly politicized research settings /Erin Jessee

Collection:

BGC Course Reserves

Call Number:

D16.14 .O76 2016

Available

c.1

Course Name:

481. Unsettling Things: Expanding Conversations in Studies of the Material World. BGC Spring 2023

Instructor:

Linn, M.
Thompson, D.