Family Oral History Across The World

Author : Mary Louise Contini Gordon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 1003129641

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Family Oral History Across the World by Mary Louise Contini Gordon Pdf

Family Oral History Across the World presents a process for memorializing family histories, bringing together established oral history standards, exploratory research, and narrative data analysis. Based on and using a prequestionnaire and over 40 recorded interviews with people from across six continents, the analysis system used in the book presents material from these interviews that brings alive the experience of the family history journey. One of the guiding principles is to encourage readers to interview family members, but also others outside the family unit, and to produce a family history in whatever format works. The book illustrates this through the inclusion of many unusual formats and stories uncovered. The book is divided into a number of themes that emerged through the analysis of numerical questionnaire and narrative interview data. Parts I, II, and III cover changing family demography, case studies, and factors such as memory, emotion, and ethics. Part IV offers a pliable process and practice guide with input and examples from interviews. It also discusses developing approaches to presenting oral histories from both oral historians and other interviewers and writers, such as journalists. With case studies as well as example guidelines and templates, this volume is ideal both for academics interested in family history as well as professional genealogists and families themselves.

Author : James D. Chancellor
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0815606451

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Life in The Family by James D. Chancellor Pdf

From a unique insider's perspective—including interviews with more than seven-hundred family members—James Chancellor charts The Family's course since its emergence as the most controversial group to grow out of the Jesus People Movement in the 1960s. Chancellor, who had extraordinary access to rare Family records, includes the experiences of members who have remained loyal to the community and to the founding vision of their prophet, David Brandt Berg. In the first book of its kind—comprising often painful personal histories and firsthand accounts—Chancellor focuses on the motivation and process of becoming a Child of God, the core beliefs of the community, the mission of the disciples, their shifting sexual mores, and the cost of membership in terms of internal discipline and external persecution. Intense confrontation with the legal, religious, political, and educational establishment marked the movement's activities from the beginning. The young disciples heeded the call of their prophet to flee a soon-to-be-destroyed North America. Dispersed throughout Europe, Latin America, Africa, and East Asia, they virtually disappeared from the American landscape. In the late 1980s, The Family had gone through extreme theological and lifestyle changes, including a radical reordering of their sexual ethos. The Children of God started to come home. Now a worldwide counterculture of some twelve thousand members, the movement's colorful history reveals a profoundly religious group that has tested the limits of human experience.

Author : Thomas MacEntee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Digital preservation
ISBN : 1921956380

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Preserving Your Family's Oral History and Stories by Thomas MacEntee Pdf

This guide provides you with all the information on the latest methods and tools used to capture and preserve your family stories. In addition, once you've learned how easy it is to build a family archive of stories, you'll want to share them with others using the tips and tricks provided in this book.

Author : Mary Jo Maynes,Ann Waltner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199713707

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The Family by Mary Jo Maynes,Ann Waltner Pdf

People have always lived in families, but what that means has varied dramatically across time and cultures. The family is not a "natural" phenomenon but an institution with a dynamic history stretching 10,000 years into the past. Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner tell the story of this fundamental unit from the beginnings of domestication and human settlement. They consider the codification of rules governing marriage in societies around the ancient world, the changing conceptions of family wrought by the heightened pace of colonialism and globalization in the modern world, and how state policies shape families today. The authors illustrate ways in which differences in gender and generation have affected family relations over the millennia. Cooperation between family members--by birth or marriage--has driven expansions of power and fusions of culture in times and places as different as ancient Mesopotamia, where kings' daughters became priestesses who mediated among the various cultures and religions of their fathers' kingdom, and sixteenth-century Mexico, in which alliances between Spanish men and indigenous women variously allowed for consolidation of colonial power or empowered resistance to colonial rule. But family discord has also driven - and been driven by - historical events such as China's 1919 May Fourth Movement, in which young people seeking an end to patriarchal authority were key participants. Maynes's and Waltner's view of the family as a force of history brings to light processes of human development and patterns of social life and allows for new insights into the human past and present.

Author : Linda Barnickel
Publisher : Practices in Oral History
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0984594701

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Oral History for the Family Historian by Linda Barnickel Pdf

This publication provides practical guidance for the novice on how to conduct a family oral history interview and avoid common mistakes.

Author : Allan J. Lichtman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015001802837

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Your Family History by Allan J. Lichtman Pdf

Donated by Roberta Whiddon Childs.

Author : Jacquelyn Dowd Hall,James L. Leloudis,Robert R. Korstad,Mary Murphy,Lu Ann Jones
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807882948

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Like a Family by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall,James L. Leloudis,Robert R. Korstad,Mary Murphy,Lu Ann Jones Pdf

Since its original publication in 1987, Like a Family has become a classic in the study of American labor history. Basing their research on a series of extraordinary interviews, letters, and articles from the trade press, the authors uncover the voices and experiences of workers in the Southern cotton mill industry during the 1920s and 1930s. Now with a new afterword, this edition stands as an invaluable contribution to American social history. "The genius of Like a Family lies in its effortless integration of the history of the family--particularly women--into the history of the cotton-mill world.--Ira Berlin, New York Times Book Review "Like a Family is history, folklore, and storytelling all rolled into one. It is a living, revelatory chronicle of life rarely observed by the academe. A powerhouse.--Studs Terkel "Here is labor history in intensely human terms. Neither great impersonal forces nor deadening statistics are allowed to get in the way of people. If students of the New South want both the dimensions and the feel of life and labor in the textile industry, this book will be immensely satisfying.--Choice

Author : William P. Fletcher
Publisher : Putnam Juvenile
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Oral biography
ISBN : 0396088872

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Recording Your Family History by William P. Fletcher Pdf

A program designed to help record the oral history of a relative or friend and preserve it on audio or video tape for future generations

Author : Inc Peter Pauper Press
Publisher : Peter Pauper Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06
Category : Oral history
ISBN : 1441327819

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An Oral History by Inc Peter Pauper Press Pdf

"This journal is designed for an adult child to record the story of a parent or grandparent (or someone else's history). Use this keepsake volume of questions and prompts as a conversation guide."--

Author : Paul Thompson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199335480

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The Voice of the Past by Paul Thompson Pdf

Oral history gives history back to the people in their own words. And in giving a past, it also helps them towards a future of their own making. Oral history and life stories help to create a truer picture of the past and the changing present, documenting the lives and feelings of all kinds of people, many otherwise hidden from history. It explores personal and family relationships and uncovers the secret cultures of work. It connects public and private experience, and it highlights the experiences of migrating between cultures. At the same time it can bring courage to the old, meaning to communities, and contact between generations. Sometimes it can offer a path for healing divided communities and those with traumatic memories. Without it the history and sociology of our time would be poor and narrow. In this fourth edition of his pioneering work, fully revised with Joanna Bornat, Paul Thompson challenges the accepted myths of historical scholarship. He discusses the reliability of oral evidence in comparison with other sources and considers the social context of its development. He looks at the relationship between memory, the self and identity. He traces oral history through its own past and weighs up the recent achievements of a movement which has become international, with notably strong developments in North America, Europe, Australia, Latin America, South Africa and the Far East, despite resistance from more conservative academics. This new edition combines the classic text of The Voice of the Past with many new sections, including especially the worldwide development of different forms of oral history and the parallel memory boom, as well as discussions of theory in oral history and of memory, trauma and reconciliation. It offers a deep social and historical interpretation along with succinct practical advice on designing and carrying out a project, The Voice of the Past remains an invaluable tool for anyone setting out to use oral history and life stories to construct a more authentic and balanced record of the past and the present.

Author : Linda A. Barnickel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Oral history
ISBN : OCLC:224497091

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Oral History for the Family Historian by Linda A. Barnickel Pdf

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Animals
ISBN : UOM:39015015357935

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The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling Pdf

Author : Robert Mennel
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781442667037

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Testimonies and Secrets by Robert Mennel Pdf

This compelling history is drawn from the papers of the Crouse-Eikle family, discovered in their ancestral home in Crousetown on Nova Scotia’s South Shore. Millwright John Will Crouse (1844–1914) kept a meticulous diary spanning five decades. Reflective by nature, he recorded the challenges of work, pondered the intricacies of communal life, and wrote movingly of his personal and spiritual struggles. His daughter Elvira Crouse Eikle reported on village events for local newspapers, and her son, Harold Eikle (1912–1977), a gifted teacher and musician, wrote letters and family history. Harold’s correspondence celebrated the social liberations of the 1930s and beyond, but also showed their limits in the suffering he experienced as a gay man in a heterosexual world. Using the family papers, other unpublished documents and oral history, Robert M. Mennel connects the experiences of the Crouse-Eikle family and their community to larger themes of social and cultural change in North America. A story of vivid personalities and episodes, by turns sad, conflicted, joyful, bitter, funny and reflective, Testimonies and Secrets will be read with pleasure by scholars and general readers alike.

Author : Valerie Raleigh Yow
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1994-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0803955790

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Recording Oral History by Valerie Raleigh Yow Pdf

With extensive examples from both historical and social science literature, this book is a practical guide to methods of recording oral history. The author provides suggestions on a range of techniques from developing a written interview guide and using tape recorders to asking probing questions during in-depth interviews and editing transcriptions. She also covers the ethical and legal issues involved in conducting life-history interviews and elaborates on three different types of oral history projects: community studies, biographies and family histories.

Author : Lynn Abrams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317277989

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Oral History Theory by Lynn Abrams Pdf

Oral history is increasingly acknowledged as a key tool for anyone studying the history of the recent past, and Oral History Theory provides a comprehensive, systematic and accessible overview of this important field. Combining the study of theories drawn from disciplines ranging from linguistics to psychoanalysis with the observations of practitioners and including extensive examples of oral history practice from around the world, this book constitutes the first integrated discussion of oral history theory. Structured around key themes such as the peculiarities of oral history, the study of the self, subjectivity and intersubjectivity, memory, narrative, performance, power and trauma, each chapter provides a clear and user-friendly explanation of the various theoretical approaches, illustrating these with examples from the rich field of published oral history and making suggestions for the practicing oral historian. This second edition includes a new chapter on trauma and ethics, a preface discussing new developments in the field and updated glossary and further reading sections. Supplemented by a new companion website (www.routledge.com/cw/abrams) containing a comprehensive range of case studies, audio material and further resources, this book will be invaluable to experienced and novice oral historians, professionals, and students who are new to the discipline.