Oral history : an interdisciplinary anthology / David K. Dunaway, Willa K. Baum, editors
- Bib ID:
- 1410402
- Format:
- Book
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Description:
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- Walnut Creek : AltaMira Press, c1996
- 432 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0761991891 (alkaline paper) (paperback)
- 0761991883 (alkaline paper)
- Series:
- American Association for state and local history book series.
- Summary:
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Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology is a collection of classic articles by some of the best known proponents of oral history, demonstrating the basics of oral history, while also acting as a guidebook for how to use it in research. Added to this new edition is insight into how oral history is practiced on an international scale, making this book an indispensable resource for scholars of history and social sciences, as well as those interested in oral history on the avocational level. This volume is a reprint of the 1984 edition, with the added bonus of a new introduction by David Dunaway and a new section on how oral history is practiced on an international scale. Selections from the original volume trace the origins of oral history in the United States, provide insights on methodology and interpretation, and review the various approaches to oral history used by folklorists, historians, anthropologists, and librarians, among others. Family and ethnic historians will find chapters addressing the applications of oral history in those fields.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction. The interdisciplinarity of oral history / David K. Dunaway
- From the preface of the first edition / Willa K. Baum
- Part I. The Gateway to Oral History
- 1. Oral history: how and why it was born / Allan Nevins
- 2. Oral history / Louis Starr
- 3. Directions for oral history in the United States / Ronald J. Grele
- Part II. Interpreting and Designing Oral History
- 4. Reliability and validity in oral history / Alice Hoffman
- 5. Distinguishing the significant from the insignificant / Barbara Tuchman
- 6. Accuracy in oral history interviewing / William Cutler III
- 7. Oral history: an appreciation / William Moss
- 8. Oral tradition and historical methodology / Jan Vansina
- 9. A note on oral tradition and historical evidence / Ruth Finnegan
- 10. Oral history project design / David Lance
- 11. Introduction to Tom Rivers / Saul Benison
- 12. Theory, method, and oral history / Peter Friedlander
- 13. Reflections on ethics / Amelia Fry
- Part III. Oral History Applied: Local, Ethnic, Family, and Women's History
- 14. Preface to The Saga of Coe Ridge / Lynwood Montell
- 15. The folklorist, the oral historian, and local history / Larry Danielson
- 16. Oral history and the writing of ethnic history / Gary Y. Okihiro
- 17. What's so special about women? : Women's oral history / Sherna Gluck
- 18. Using oral history for a family history project / Linda Shopes
- 19. The search for generational memory / Tamara Hareven
- 20. Black history,oral history, and genealogy / Alex Haley
- Part IV. Oral History and Related Disciplines: Folklore, Anthropology, Media, and Librarianship
- 21. The oral historian and the folklorist / Richard Dorson
- 22. Oral history as communicative event / Charles Joyner
- 23. The anthropological interview and the life history / Sidney Mintz
- 24. Radio and the public use of oral history / David K. Dunaway
- 25. The expanding role of the librarian in oral history / Willa K. Baum
- Part V. Oral History and Regional Studies
- 26. Oral history in Mexico and the Caribbean / Eugenia Meyer
- 27. The development of oral history in Britain / Paul Thompson
- 28. Oral history in Germany / Karin Hartewig
- 29. Oral history in France / Daniele Voldman
- 30. Oral history in Italy / Alessandro Portelli
- 31. Oral history in Latin America / Dora Schwarzstein.
- Notes:
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- "Published in cooperation with the American Association for State and Local History and the Oral History Association."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Oral history
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