The Oral History ReaderRobert Perks, Alistair Thomson The Oral History Reader, now in its third edition, is a comprehensive, international anthology combining major, ‘classic’ articles with cutting-edge pieces on the theory, method and use of oral history. Twenty-seven new chapters introduce the most significant developments in oral history in the last decade to bring this invaluable text up to date, with new pieces on emotions and the senses, on crisis oral history, current thinking around traumatic memory, the impact of digital mobile technologies, and how oral history is being used in public contexts, with more international examples to draw in work from North and South America, Britain and Europe, Australasia, Asia and Africa. Arranged in five thematic sections, each with an introduction by the editors to contextualise the selection and review relevant literature, articles in this collection draw upon diverse oral history experiences to examine issues including:
With a revised and updated bibliography and useful contacts list, as well as a dedicated online resources page, this third edition of The Oral History Reader is the perfect tool for those encountering oral history for the first time, as well as for seasoned practitioners. |
Contents
The Voice of The Past Oral history | |
What Makes Oral History Different | |
Politics and Praxis in Canadian WorkingClass Oral History | |
Listening in the Cold The practice of oral history in an Argentine working | |
What Remains Reflections on crisis oral history | |
Oral History and the Senses | |
Memory Work in java A cautionary tale | |
Sex Silence and Audiotape Listening for female samesex desire in Cuba | |
Thats not What I Said Interpretative conflict in oral narrative research | |
Evidence Empathy and Ethics Lessons from oral histories of the Klan | |
Making histories | |
Voice Ear and Text Words meaning and transcription | |
Editing Oral History for Publication | |
The Affective Power of Sound Oral history on radio | |
Douglas A Boyd | |
Interviewing | |
Interviewing an Interviewer | |
Learning to Listen Interview techniques and analyses | |
Remembering in Groups Negotiating between individual and collective | |
Interviewing the Women of Phokeng Consciousness and gender insider | |
Issues in CrossCultural Interviewing Japanese women in England | |
Toward an Ethics of Silence? Negotiating offtherecord events and identity | |
Imaging Family Memories My Mum her photographs our memories | |
Interviewing in Business and Corporate Environments Benefits and challenges | |
Remembering Survival Inside a Nazi slavelabor camp | |
Remembering a Vietnam War Firefight Changing perspectives over time | |
Private Life in Stalins Russia Narratives memory and oral history | |
Foundling Voices Placing oral history at the heart of an oral history | |
CoCreating our Story Making a documentary film | |
The Historical Hearing Aid Located oral history from the listeners | |
Mapping Memories of Displacement Oral history memoryscapes and mobile | |
Advocacy and empowerment | |
Sound Memory and DisPlacement Exploring sound song and performance | |
You Hear it in Their Voice Photographs and cultural consolidation among | |
Trying to be Good Lessons in oral history and performance | |
Oral History and New Orthodoxies Narrative accounts in the history | |
The Limits of Oral History Ethics and methodology amid highly politicized | |