--so they understand : cultural issues in oral history / William Schneider.

By:

Schneider, William [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0874215501
9780874215502

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

398.35 21

LOC classification:

GR72 .S35 2002

Contents:

Pt. I. How Stories Work. 1. Introduction. 2. A Career Full of Stories. 3. What's in a Story. 4. Sorting Out Oral Tradition and Oral History -- Pt. II. Types of Stories. 5. Personal Narratives: Shared One to Another. 6. Gathering to Tell Stories: The Neglected Genre in Oral History. 7. In Search of the Story: Interviewers and Their Narrators. 8. Life Histories: The Constructed Genre -- Pt. III. Issues Raised by Stories. 9. The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth. 10. Issues of Representation. 11. Intellectual Property Rights and the Public: Unfinished Business. 12. The Public Record.

Review: "Illustrated with numerous stories collected from Alaska, the Yukon, and South Africa and drawing on the author's experiences as a longtime oral historian and curator, So They Understand is a comprehensive account of the special challenges and concerns involved in documenting, representing, preserving, and interpreting oral narratives."--BOOK JACKET.

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"Documentation, representation, presentation, and interpretation, illustrated with stories from South Africa, Alaska, and the Yukon.".

Includes bibliographical references.

"Illustrated with numerous stories collected from Alaska, the Yukon, and South Africa and drawing on the author's experiences as a longtime oral historian and curator, So They Understand is a comprehensive account of the special challenges and concerns involved in documenting, representing, preserving, and interpreting oral narratives."--BOOK JACKET.

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