Oral History Off the Record

Oral History Off the Record

Author: A. Sheftel

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-09-11

Total Pages: 533

ISBN-13: 1137339659

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Because oral history interviews are personal interactions between human beings, they rarely conform to a methodological ideal. These reflections from oral historians provide honest and rigorous analyses of actual oral history practice that address the complexities of a human-centered methodology.


Oral History and Photography

Oral History and Photography

Author: A. Freund

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-10-24

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 0230120091

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This book collects original research essays to explore the diverse uses of photographs and photography in oral history, from the use of photos as memory triggers to their deployment in the telling of life stories. The book's contributors include both oral historians and photography scholars and critics.


Remembering 1916

Remembering 1916

Author: Richard S. Grayson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-03-02

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1316565386

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The year 1916 witnessed two events that would profoundly shape both politics and commemoration in Ireland over the course of the following century. Although the Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme were important historical events in their own right, their significance also lay in how they came to be understood as iconic moments in the emergence of Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach drawing on history, politics, anthropology and cultural studies, this volume explores how the memory of these two foundational events has been constructed, mythologised and revised over the course of the past century. The aim is not merely to understand how the Rising and the Somme came to exert a central place in how the past is viewed in Ireland, but to explore wider questions about the relationship between history, commemoration and memory.


Speaking History

Speaking History

Author: S. Armitage

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-30

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0230104916

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This oral history reader, designed to supplement texts on the second half of the U.S. history survey, features the words of ordinary people who describe how they shaped, viewed, and remembered American history.


Displaced

Displaced

Author: Olivia Bennett

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2012-03-15

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9780230117860

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Although displacement is often associated with conflict zones, millions of people are resettled yearly in the name of development and progress. They endure social and cultural disruption as well as economic upheaval, and their voices are rarely heard. This groundbreaking volume collects oral histories that reveal the challenges they face, such as the loss of cultural identity, shifting social roles, and fractured family relationships. Though full of regret and loss, these accounts reveal incredible resourcefulness and resilience in the face of profound change. Together, they form a crucial reminder of development's often devastating human cost.


Second Wind

Second Wind

Author: M. Festle

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-02-14

Total Pages: 471

ISBN-13: 1137011505

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This book uses both oral and conventional historical methods to describe and analyze the history of lung transplantation in the US. While drawing on accounts from doctors and other specialists, it primarily focuses on the experiences of patients and explores themes of uncertainty, timing, identity, coping, and quality of life.


Oral History, Community, and Displacement

Oral History, Community, and Displacement

Author: S. Field

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2012-02-29

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781349291786

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This book uses oral history methodology to record stories of people who experienced the brunt of racist forced removals in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. Through life stories and community case studies, it traces the human impact of this disruptive, often violent feature of apartheid's social engineering.


Oral History, Oral Culture, and Italian Americans

Oral History, Oral Culture, and Italian Americans

Author: Luisa Del Giudice

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-11-09

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0230101399

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This book introduces readers to a wide range of interpretations that take oral history and folklore as the premise with a focus on Italian and Italian American culture in disciplines such as history, ethnography, memoir, art, and music.


An Oral History of the Portuguese Colonial War

An Oral History of the Portuguese Colonial War

Author: Ângela Campos

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-02-23

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 331946194X

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This oral history of ex-combatants of the Portuguese colonial war places the reader face-to-face with the men who were conscripted to fight the last and bloodiest of the West’s colonial wars in Africa, namely in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau (then Portuguese Guinea), between 1961 and 1974. At the forefront of this work are the lived experiences of a wide range of Portuguese veterans, framed by broader insights about the post-war public memory of this event in Portugal. Moving away from stereotypical and polarized images of these ex-combatants, An Oral History of the Portuguese Colonial War: Conscripted Generation explores the memories and consequences of this war for these veterans and their society. Seeking to understand why Portuguese ex-combatants often feel neglected and historically unrecognised, this book presents a thorough portrait of a continually shifting – and at times paradoxical –individual and collective remembrance process.


The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore

The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore

Author: Akintunde Akinyemi

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-03-05

Total Pages: 1041

ISBN-13: 3030555178

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This handbook offers the most comprehensive, analytic, and multidisciplinary study of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the African Diaspora to date. Preeminent scholars Akintunde Akinyemi and Toyin Falola assemble a team of leading and rising stars across African Studies research to retrieve and renew the scholarship of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the Diaspora just as critical concerns about their survival are pushed to the forefront of the field. With five sections on the central themes within orality and folklore – including engagement ranging from popular culture to technology, methods to pedagogy – this handbook is an indispensable resource to scholars, students, and practitioners of oral traditions and folklore preservation alike. This definitive reference is the first to provide detailed, systematic discussion, and up-to-date analysis of African oral traditions and folklore.