--so they understand : cultural issues in oral history / / William Schneider
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| Autore: |
Schneider William
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| Titolo: |
--so they understand : cultural issues in oral history / / William Schneider
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| Pubblicazione: | Logan, Utah, : Utah State University Press, c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (207 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 398/.35 |
| Soggetto topico: | Oral tradition |
| Oral history | |
| 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-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | --so they understand |
| ISBN: | 9786612490477 |
| 9781282490475 | |
| 1282490478 | |
| 9780874214888 | |
| 0874214882 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910143504503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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