--so they understand : : cultural issues in oral history / / William Schneider.
Illustrated with numerous stories collected from Alaska, the Yukon, and South Africa and further enlivened by the author's accessible style and experiences as a longtime oral historian and archivist, So They Understand is a comprehensive study of the special challenges and concerns involved...
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| Year of Publication: | 2002 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (207 pages) :; illustrations |
| Notes: | "Documentation, representation, presentation, and interpretation, illustrated with stories from South Africa, Alaska, and the Yukon." |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- part one How Stories Work
- one Introduction
- two A Career Full of Stories
- three What's in a Story
- four Sorting Out Oral Tradition and Oral History
- part two Types of Stories
- five Personal Narratives Shared One to Another
- six Gathering to Tell Stories: The Neglected Genre of Oral History
- seven In Search of the Story: Interviewers and Their Narrators
- eight Life Histories: The Constructed Genre
- part three Issues Raised by Stories
- nine The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth
- ten Issues of Representation
- eleven Intellectual Property Rights and the Public Unfinished Business
- twelve The Public Record
- Appendix A: Oral History Gift and Release Agreement
- Appendix B: Interview Restrictions
- Appendix C: Internet Use of Oral History Programs
- Notes
- References
- Index.