The handbook of oral history
By: edited by Thomas L. Charlton, Lois E. Myers, and Rebecca Sharpless.
Contributors: Charlton, Thomas L.; Myers, Lois E., 1946-; Sharpless, Rebecca.
Publisher: Altamira Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 625
Subjects: Oral history
Description: Twenty academics and archivists from the U.S. and UK contribute 16 chapters to this reference work designed for students, researchers, field historians, community activists and general readers with a special interest in oral history. Offering both theoretical and practical information, the text addresses research design, ethical and legal considerations, interviewing techniques, preservation and archival issues, transcribing and editing oral history tapes, memory theory, life-stage theory, communication analysis, gender-related concepts, broad narrative theory, publishing oral history in print and other forms, creative uses of oral history as artistic outcomes or artful productions, and using oral history in sound and visual documentaries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The history of oral history / Rebecca Sharpless; title: Oral history as evidence / Ronald J. Grele; title: Research design and strategies / Mary A. Larson; title: Legal and ethical issues in oral history / Linda Shopes; title: Oral history interviews : from inception to closure / Charles T. Morrissey; title: Oral history and archives : documenting context / James E. Fogerty; title: The uneasy page : transcribing and editing oral history / Elinor A. Maz'; title: Memory theory : personal and social / Alice M. Hoffman, Howard S. Hoffman; title: Aging, the life course, and oral history : African American narratives of struggle, social change, and decline / Kim Lacy Rogers; title: A conversation analytic approach to oral history interviewing / Eva M. McMahan; title: Women's oral history : is it so special? / Sherna Berger Gluck; title: Narrative theory / Mary Chamberlain; title: Publishing oral history : oral exchange and print culture / Richard Cándida Smith; title: Biography and oral history / Valerie Raleigh Yow; title: Fractious action : oral history-based performance / Jeff Friedman; title: Oral history in sound and moving image documentaries / Pamela Dean, Charles Hardy III.