Life Storying In Oral History

Author : Jarmila Mildorf
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783111073101

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Life Storying in Oral History by Jarmila Mildorf Pdf

This book proposes the concept of "fictional contamination" to capture the fact that fictionalization and literary complexity can be found across different kinds of narrative. Exploring conversational storytelling in oral history and other interviews from socionarratological perspectives, the book systematically discusses key narrative features such as story templates, dialogue, double deixis, focalization or perspective-taking and mind representation as well as special narrative forms including second-person narration and narratives of vicarious experience. These features and forms attest to storytellers’ linguistic creativity and serve the function of involving listeners by making stories more interesting. Shared by fictional and conversational narratives at a basic level, they can bring conversational stories closer to fiction and potentially compromise their credibility if used extensively. Detailed analyses of broad-ranging examples are undertaken against a rich narrative-theoretical background drawn from the fields of narratology, linguistics, oral history, life storytelling, psychology and philosophy. The book is of interest to scholars and students working in these fields and anyone fascinated by the richness of conversational storytelling.

Author : Anita Yasuda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06
Category : Collective memory
ISBN : 1773081802

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Oral Traditions and Storytelling by Anita Yasuda Pdf

Explores the role of storytelling in Indigenous culture and how they are keeping their oral traditions alive for future generations.

Author : Thomas King
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780887846960

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The Truth about Stories by Thomas King Pdf

Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with its Native peoples. Native culture has deep ties to storytelling, and yet no other North American culture has been the subject of more erroneous stories. The Indian of fact, as King says, bears little resemblance to the literary Indian, the dying Indian, the construct so powerfully and often destructively projected by White North America. With keen perception and wit, King illustrates that stories are the key to, and only hope for, human understanding. He compels us to listen well.

Author : Julie Cruikshank
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Athapascan Indians
ISBN : 0774804130

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Life Lived Like a Story by Julie Cruikshank Pdf

"There is pure gold here for those who want to understand the rules of the old ways. ... [The book] has a convincing sureness, an intensity which cannot be denied, a strong sense of family. ... Candidly, and often with sly humour, the three women discuss early white-Indian relations, the Klondike gold rush, the epidemics, the starvation, the healthy and wealthy times, and building of the Alaska Highway. ... Integrity is here, and wisdom. There is no doubting the authenticity of the voices. As women, they had power and they used it wisely, and through their words and Cruikshank's skills, you will change your mind if you think the anthropological approach to oral history can only be dull."--Barry Broadfoot, Toronto Globe and Mail.

Author : Valerie Raleigh Yow
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0759106541

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Recording Oral History by Valerie Raleigh Yow Pdf

Presents chapters on interviewing skills, ethics, and interpresonal relationship.

Author : A. Freund,A. Thomson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230120099

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Oral History and Photography by A. Freund,A. Thomson Pdf

This book collects original research essays to explore the diverse uses of photographs and photography in oral history, from the use of photos as memory triggers to their deployment in the telling of life stories. The book's contributors include both oral historians and photography scholars and critics.

Author : Lynn Abrams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317277996

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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.

Author : Stephen Arthur,Julia Arthur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Local history
ISBN : OCLC:155243320

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Your Life & Times by Stephen Arthur,Julia Arthur Pdf

Author : Kim Anderson
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780887554162

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Life Stages and Native Women by Kim Anderson Pdf

A rare and inspiring guide to the health and well-being of Aboriginal women and their communities.The process of “digging up medicines” - of rediscovering the stories of the past - serves as a powerful healing force in the decolonization and recovery of Aboriginal communities. In Life Stages and Native Women, Kim Anderson shares the teachings of fourteen elders from the Canadian prairies and Ontario to illustrate how different life stages were experienced by Metis, Cree, and Anishinaabe girls and women during the mid-twentieth century. These elders relate stories about their own lives, the experiences of girls and women of their childhood communities, and customs related to pregnancy, birth, post-natal care, infant and child care, puberty rites, gender and age-specific work roles, the distinct roles of post-menopausal women, and women’s roles in managing death. Through these teachings, we learn how evolving responsibilities from infancy to adulthood shaped women’s identities and place within Indigenous society, and were integral to the health and well-being of their communities. By understanding how healthy communities were created in the past, Anderson explains how this traditional knowledge can be applied toward rebuilding healthy Indigenous communities today.

Author : David Remnick
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780375757518

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Life Stories by David Remnick Pdf

One of art's purest challenges is to translate a human being into words. The New Yorker has met this challenge more successfully and more originally than any other modern American journal. It has indelibly shaped the genre known as the Profile. Starting with light-fantastic evocations of glamorous and idiosyncratic figures of the twenties and thirties, such as Henry Luce and Isadora Duncan, and continuing to the present, with complex pictures of such contemporaries as Mikhail Baryshnikov and Richard Pryor, this collection of New Yorker Profiles presents readers with a portrait gallery of some of the most prominent figures of the twentieth century. These Profiles are literary-journalistic investigations into character and accomplishment, motive and madness, beauty and ugliness, and are unrivalled in their range, their variety of style, and their embrace of humanity. Including these twenty-eight profiles: “Mr. Hunter’s Grave” by Joseph Mitchell “Secrets of the Magus” by Mark Singer “Isadora” by Janet Flanner “The Soloist” by Joan Acocella “Time . . . Fortune . . . Life . . . Luce” by Walcott Gibbs “Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody” by Ian Frazier “The Mountains of Pi” by Richard Preston “Covering the Cops” by Calvin Trillin “Travels in Georgia” by John McPhee “The Man Who Walks on Air” by Calvin Tomkins “A House on Gramercy Park” by Geoffrey Hellman “How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen?” by Lillian Ross “The Education of a Prince” by Alva Johnston “White Like Me” by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. “Wunderkind” by A. J. Liebling “Fifteen Years of The Salto Mortale” by Kenneth Tynan “The Duke in His Domain” by Truman Capote “A Pryor Love” by Hilton Als “Gone for Good” by Roger Angell “Lady with a Pencil” by Nancy Franklin “Dealing with Roseanne” by John Lahr “The Coolhunt” by Malcolm Gladwell “Man Goes to See a Doctor” by Adam Gopnik “Show Dog” by Susan Orlean “Forty-One False Starts” by Janet Malcolm “The Redemption” by Nicholas Lemann “Gore Without a Script” by Nicholas Lemann “Delta Nights” by Bill Buford

Author : Marta Kurkowska-Budzan,Krzysztof Zamorski
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789027226501

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Oral History by Marta Kurkowska-Budzan,Krzysztof Zamorski Pdf

Oral History: Challenges of Dialogue addresses oral history from two perspectives. The first is the perspective of oral history as dialoguing, the second is the presentation of concrete situations, research, persons, and their own stories as built on the solid ground of discourse and within a concrete context.

Author : Katrina Srigley,Stacey Zembrzycki,Franca Iacovetta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351123808

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Beyond Women's Words by Katrina Srigley,Stacey Zembrzycki,Franca Iacovetta Pdf

Beyond Women’s Words unites feminist scholars, artists, and community activists working with the stories of women and other historically marginalized subjects to address the contributions and challenges of doing feminist oral history. Feminists who work with oral history methods want to tell stories that matter. They know, too, that the telling of those stories—the processes by which they are generated and recorded, and the different contexts in which they are shared and interpreted—also matters—a lot. Using Sherna Berger Gluck and Daphne Patai’s classic text, Women’s Words, as a platform to reflect on how feminisms, broadly defined, have influenced, and continue to influence, the wider field of oral history, this remarkable collection brings together an international, multi-generational, and multidisciplinary line-up of authors whose work highlights the great variety in understandings of, and approaches to, feminist oral histories. Through five thematic sections, the volume considers Indigenous modes of storytelling, feminism in diverse locales around the globe, different theoretical approaches, oral history as performance, digital oral history, and oral history as community-engagement. Beyond Women’s Words is ideal for students of oral history, anthropology, public history, women’s and gender history, and Women’s and Gender Studies, as well as activists, artists, and community-engaged practitioners.

Author : Nepia Mahuika
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190681692

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Rethinking Oral History and Tradition by Nepia Mahuika Pdf

Indigenous peoples have our own ways of defining oral history. For many, oral sources are shaped and disseminated in multiple forms that are more culturally textured than just standard interview recordings. For others, indigenous oral histories are not merely fanciful or puerile myths or traditions, but are viable and valid historical accounts that are crucial to native identities and the relationships between individual and collective narratives. This book challenges popular definitions of oral history that have displaced and confined indigenous oral accounts as merely oral tradition. It stands alongside other marginalized community voices that highlight the importance of feminist, Black, and gay oral history perspectives, and is the first text dedicated to a specific indigenous articulation of the field. Drawing on a Maori indigenous case study set in Aotearoa New Zealand, this book advocates a rethinking of the discipline, encouraging a broader conception of the way we do oral history, how we might define its form, and how its politics might move beyond a subsuming democratization to include nuanced decolonial possibilities.

Author : Faith Gibson
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781849051514

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Reminiscence and Life Story Work by Faith Gibson Pdf

Previously published under title: Reminiscence and recall.

Author : Patricia Pui Huen Lim,Chong Guan Kwa,James H. Morrison
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9812300279

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Oral History in Southeast Asia by Patricia Pui Huen Lim,Chong Guan Kwa,James H. Morrison Pdf

Oral History is a means of recording the past, through interviews. There has been much oral history activity in Southeast Asia since the 1960s at both the institutional and individual levels. This volume contains a range of papers dealing with the theoretical, methodological and practical issues in oral history and the unique problems of their application in the Southeast Asian context. The authors include both academics and practitioners who bring with them a wealth of expertise and experience in anthropology, history, sociology, publishing and archives administration.