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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816473103321

Autore

Vaněk Miroslav

Titolo

Around the globe : rethinking oral history with its protagonists / / Miroslav Vaněk ; reviewed by Pavel Urbásek, Pavel Mücke ; edited by Petra Bílková and Martina Pranič

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Prague, Czech Republic] : , : Karolinum, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

80-246-3055-9

80-246-2374-9

Edizione

[First edition in English.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (172 p.)

Disciplina

907.2

Soggetti

Oral history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Content""; ""1/ Preface""; ""2/ The reason for a book of interviews""; ""Researchers in the role of narrators""; ""Spheres of research""; ""How did the interviews continue?""; ""3/ A book of interviews""; ""Rina Benmayor""; ""David King Dunaway""; ""Alexander Freund""; ""Ronald Grele""; ""Daniela Koleva""; ""Elizabeth Millwood""; ""Charles T. Morrissey""; ""Robert Perks""; ""Alexander von Plato""; ""Alessandro Portelli""; ""Donald A. Ritchie""; ""Alistair Thomson""; ""Paul Thompson""; ""4/ Rules and ethics of oral historical research   must be respected""; ""Bibliography""

Sommario/riassunto

Around the Globe. Rethinking Oral History with Its Protagonists presents interviews with thirteen prominent scholars focusing on oral history. In these interviews Professor Miroslav Vanek captures not only segments of life stories of these personalities, how and why they began their pursuit of oral history, but also their views of the status and importance of oral history within social sciences. The interviews reflect on how they cope with the frequently asked question concerning the subjective character of oral history, whether they consider oral history to be a discipline or method and wheth