UID:
almahu_9947382433202882
Format:
1 online resource (207 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
1-282-49047-8
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9786612490477
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0-87421-488-2
Content:
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 in documenting, representing, preserving, and interpreting oral narratives. The title of the book comes from a quotation by Chief Peter John, the traditional chief of the Tanana Chiefs region in central Alaska: ""In between the lines is something special going on in their minds, and that has--
Note:
"Documentation, representation, presentation, and interpretation, illustrated with stories from South Africa, Alaska, and the Yukon."
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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.
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Also available in print form.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-87421-550-1
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Ethnology
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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