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These key writings cover topics such as the problems posed by interviewing, discussions of the politics of empowerment, analytical strategies for interpreting memories, and concerns of archiving, practice, ethics and interpretation. The Oral History Reader, now in its third edition, is a comprehensive, international anthology combining major, `classic' articles with cutting-edge pieces on the theory, method and use of oral history. Twenty-seven new chapters introduce the most significant developments in oral history in the last decade to bring this invaluable text up to date, with new pieces on emotions and the senses, on crisis oral history, current thinking around traumatic memory, the impact of digital mobile technologies, and how oral history is being used in public contexts, with more international examples to draw in work from North and South America, Britain and Europe, Australasia, Asia and Africa. Arranged in five thematic sections, each with an introduction by the editors to contextualise the selection and review relevant literature, articles in this collection draw upon diverse oral history experiences to examine issues including: Key debates in the development of oral h

Author

Robert Perks; Alistair Thomson

Publisher

Routledge; Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9781317371311

Subjects

History, Humanities