--so they understand : cultural issues in oral history / William Schneider.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schneider, William.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oral tradition.

Oral history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, c2002.

Logan Utah State University Press, [2025]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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--

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.

Notes:

"Documentation, representation, presentation, and interpretation, illustrated with stories from South Africa, Alaska, and the Yukon."

Includes bibliographical references.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

9786612490477

9781282490475

1282490478

9780874214888

0874214882

OCLC:

476107848