Recording oral history
Subtitle: a guide for the humanities and social sciences
By: Valerie Raleigh Yow.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
Subjects: Oral history -- Methodology
Description: "In Recording Oral History, Second Edition, Valerie Raleigh Yow builds on the foundation of her classic text with a fully updated and subtaintially expanded new edition. Yow's updated edition now includes new material on using the Internet, an examination of the interactions between oral history and memory processes, and analysis of testimony and the interpretation of meanings in different contexts. This new volume offers historians, social scientists, and other practitioners engaged in this difficult, rewarding work a scholarly and practical guide to the methods of oral history. It will interest researchers and students in a wide variety of disciplines including history, sociology, anthropology, education, psychology, social work, and ethnographic methods."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.