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Record Nr.

UNINA9910143504503321

Autore

Schneider William

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Logan, Utah, : Utah State University Press, c2002

ISBN

9786612490477

9781282490475

1282490478

9780874214888

0874214882

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

398/.35

Soggetti

Oral tradition

Oral history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- part one How Stories Work -- one Introduction -- two A Career Full of Stories -- three What's in a Story -- four Sorting Out Oral Tradition and Oral History -- part two Types of Stories -- five Personal Narratives Shared One to Another -- six Gathering to Tell Stories: The Neglected Genre of Oral History -- seven In Search of the Story: Interviewers and Their Narrators -- eight Life Histories: The Constructed Genre -- part three Issues Raised by Stories -- nine The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth -- ten Issues of Representation -- eleven Intellectual Property Rights and the Public Unfinished Business -- twelve The Public Record -- Appendix A: Oral History Gift and Release Agreement -- Appendix B: Interview Restrictions -- Appendix C: Internet Use of Oral History Programs -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Illustrated with numerous stories collected from Alaska, the Yukon,  and South Africa and further enlivened by the author's accessible style  and experiences as a longtime oral historian and archivist, So They  Understand is a comprehensive study of the special challenges and  



concerns involved in documenting, representing, preserving, and  interpreting oral narratives. The title of the book comes from a  quotation by Chief Peter John, the traditional chief of the Tanana  Chiefs region in central Alaska: ""In between the lines is something  special going on in their minds, and that has--