num_pages: 360
description: Portelli offers a new and challenging approach to oral history with an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective. Examining cultural conflict and communication between social groups and classes in industrial societies he identifies the way individuals strive to create memories in order to make sense of their lives and evaluates the impact of the fieldwork experience on the consciousness of the researcher. By recovering the value of the story-telling experience Portelli's work makes delightful reading for the specialist and non-specialist alike.
language: English
title: The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in Oral History
publisher: State University of New York Press