Handbook of Global Oral History / edited by Mark Cave and Selma Leydesdorff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cave, Mark, editor.

Leydesdorff, Selma, editor.

Series:

Handbooks of Literary and Cultural Studies ; 3.

Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Handbooks of Literary and Cultural Studies ; 3

Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Applied Social Sciences.

Contemporary History.

Civilization--History.

Civilization.

Global History.

Global Studies.

History.

Literature and Cultural Studies.

Social sciences.

Genre:

Essays

Physical Description:

1 online resource (715 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Handbook of Global Oral History inspires the reader to be more open in their conception of what oral history is and how it is applied within a variety of disciplines to unlock meaning in human experience. The book brings together scholars from around the world in the areas ranging from memory studies, Indigenous history and journalism to anthropology, trauma, and archival studies. Their essays provide fresh theoretical insights to the field of oral history, and broaden current notions of how oral history fieldwork can be applied and how archived interviews can be interpreted. Contributors: Nēpia Mahuika, John Waiko, David Carey, Jan Jansen, Dr. Sumallya Mukhopadhyay, Pothiti Hantzaroula, Dr. Nompilo C. Ndlovu, Nadia Jones-Gailani, Denise Phillips, Verena Lucia Nägel, Alexander Prenninger, Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar, Vannessa Hearman, Nanci Adler, Alexander Freund, Sofia Bach, Claudia Dueck, Jeff Sahadeo, Mark Cave, Anahi Naranjo Jara, Kate Darian-Smith, Carla Pascoe Leahy, Dr Deb Anderson, Dr Nicolette Snowden, Pilar Riaño-Alcalá, Jeff Friedman, Naomi Frost, Steven High, Dr. Tomoyo Nakao, Selma Leydesdorff, Dori Laub, Yasmin Saikia, Stephen M. Sloan, Melissa M. Sloan, Sean Field.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyrights Informations

Dedication Page

Contents

Introduction

Part 1: Landscapes of Memory

1 Oral History and the Indigenous Turn

Abstract

Keywords

1 Rethinking Oral History and Tradition

2 Reclaiming Oral History on Our Own Terms

3 A Return to the Practice and Form of Oral History

4 Indigenous Lessons in the Ethics and Politics of Oral History

5 We Talk, You Listen? Our Turn to Speak on Oral History

Bibliography

2 Oral History and the War: the View from Papua New Guinea

1 Colonial History and Oral Traditions

2 World War II Encounters

3 Conclusion

References

3 Survivance in Highland Guatemala: Disease, Epidemics, and Healing in Maya Oral Histories

1 Chronic Cholera

2 The 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic through Oral and Archival Sources

2 Malaria Memories

3 Indigenous Healing Concepts and Practitioners

4 Conclusion

4 "At Your Service": West African Griots in Dialogue with Researchers

1 Introduction: Defining the Setting and the Skills of the Griots

1.1 Giving Account

1.2 Training Diplomacy

1.3 The Necessity to Address an Audience

2 To Define a Setting by Invoking a Shared History

3 A Modern Historical Paradigm of the "Mali Empire"

4 "At Your Service" - How Griots Produce a Narrative Space for the Mali Empire

5 Kurukanfugan as a Narrative Space

6 Conclusion

5 The Emerging Contours of Oral History in India: Now and Then

1 Introduction

2 The Confluence of Oral Tradition and Oral History

3 Oral History in India

6 The Child Survivor: Writing a History of the Holocaust in Greece from a Youth Perspective

Keywords.

1 Child Survivors and Testimony

2 Intersections of Biographical and Historical Time

3 Generational Memory and the Legacy of the Shoah

7 Gukurahundi Narratives and Afterlives: Intergenerational and across Generational Memory

2 The Concepts of First and Second Generations

3 Problematizing the Concepts of First and Second Generations

4 Drawing Attention to the 1.5 Generation

5 Analyzing and Discussing "Intergenerational" Memory According to Study Participants

8 Edible Histories and Inherited Memories: the Interconnectedness

1 Food as a Framework for Memory-Making

2 Food as a Site of Memory Production and Negotiation

3 Ingesting the Nation and Digesting the Past

4 Etiquette and Intimacy: Drinking Coffee in Interviews with Iraqi Women

5 Conclusion: Epigenetics and Transgenerational Remembering

Interviews with Iraqi Refugee and Migrant Women

Iraqi Women's Published Cookbooks

Secondary Sources

9 Drinking Tea Together: Interviewing Hazara Refugees in Australia

2 The Hazaras

3 Trauma and Crisis

4 Connecting across Cultures

5 Interview Environments, Conversations, and Cultural Mores

6 Cultural Ideas about Knowledge

Part 2: The Archive

10 Bits and Bytes: Oral Histories of Holocaust Survivors as Digital Research Data

1 From the Manuscript to the Digital Recording

2 From the "Era of the Witness" to the "Era of the User"

2.1 Filter Search

2.2 Index Search

2.3 Full-Text Search

3 The Hyperconnective Age: When Algorithms Take Over

4 When Narratives Turn into Research Data

4.1 Interviewing

4.2 Informed Consent

4.3 Ownership and Ethical Responsibility

5 Conclusion

Additional Resources.

11 The Tale of the Kapos: a Secondary Analysis of Interviews

2 The Kapo System

3 Doing Oral History on Silenced Voices

4 The Masters of the Camp

5 From Militant to Ambivalent Narratives

6 Becoming a Kapo

7 Conclusion

12 A Different Way of Listening: Orality and Sound in Colombia's Truth Commission

1 Multidimensional Listening

2 The Editing Process

3 Violence and the Narrative of Collapse

4 The Book of Anticipations

5 The Book of Devastation and Life

5.1 Spatial Fractures

5.2 Corporeal Fractures

5.3 Naming the World

5.4 Temporal Fractures

5.5 Interstitial Narratives

6 The Book of the Future

6.1 Communities of Pain

6.2 Coexistence, Signification, and Resistance

6.3 Encounters

6.4 Territories of Listening

6.5 Epilogue

7 Detour: Narratives of Life in War

8 Sound and Memory

9 Final Comment: the Social Life of the Volume

13 For Remembrance and Recognition

2 East Timor: Decolonization, Invasion, and Resistance

3 Oral History and Aspirations for Independence

4 Oral History, Independence, and Recognition

4.1 The Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation and the Chega! Report

4.2 Living Memory Project

4.3 Short Films and the East Timorese Diaspora

4.4 Centro Nacional Chega! (CNC)

4.5 Biographies, Memoirs, and Oral History Collections

4.6 History of the East Timorese Women's Struggle

5 Unrealized Potential

14 The Return of the Repressed: the Endurance

1 An End to Silence from Above, and Below, Again: the Origin and Development of Memorial

2 Surviving the Gulag, and Its Afterlife for Returnees

3 Surviving the Gulag with, Through, and by Party Loyalty.

4 The (Failed) Post-Soviet Attempts to Confront the Crimes of the Soviet Regime and the Potential of Oral History to Rewrite the Past, Present, and Future

15 Collaborative Conundrum: Opportunities and Challenges

2 The Use of Archived Oral Histories

3 Re-approaching Former Interviewees

4 One Approach to Using Archived Oral Histories: Collaborative Interpretation

5 Putting Collaborative Interpretation into Practice

5.1 Freund's Observations

5.2 Bach's Observations

5.3 Dueck's Observations

6 Conclusion: Lessons Learned

16 When Is It Not "Fine"? Ethnic Relations and Racial Discrimination

17 Why Did This Happen? Making Meaningful Answers in the Aftermath of Crisis

1 Hurricane Katrina

2 The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

3 The Covid-19 Pandemic

18 Changing Climate, Changing Cultures: a Multimedia Oral History Approach

1 Rethinking Oral History in the Anthropocene

2 Capturing a Finca and Pachamama

3 De Aqui, y de alla - from Here, and from There

19 Peoples and Places: Australian Oral Histories of Migration and Environmental Change

1 Part I: Oral Histories and Migration Histories

1.1 Case Study: Migration, Cultural Diversity, and Television

2 Part II: Oral Histories and Environmental Histories

2.1 Case Study: Climate Change, Disasters, and Families

Part 3: Transformations

20 "Bowled Over by Burning Kangaroos": Women's Writing

1 "The Planetary Symbol of a Climate-Changed Future"

2 Responding to "the Uncomfortable Truth"

3 Reigniting "the Travel Bug"

4 "It's Personal"

5 Journalism "On the Side"

6 "Different Types of Courage"

7 "Making Hard Decisions".

21 Oralities, Voice, and Affect in Oral History Work in the Afterlives of Violence

2 The Living Archive

3 Emplaced Testimony

4 Voice

22 Oral History, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression

2 Section 1: Theoretical Framework

2.1 Introduction to the Embodied Periphery

2.2 Embodiment, from Periphery into the Frame

2.3 Embodiment, from Frame to Ground

2.4 Expanding Laban Movement Analysis

2.5 Ricoeur's Tensive "As-Structure"

3 Section 2: Case Studies

3.1 Cohort Selection for Embodied Narrative Fluency

3.2 Finding Tom Rawe's Stable-Mobile Meta-function

3.3 Finding Kenneth Rinker's Flow-Flux Meta-Function

4 Section 3: Oral History and Gender

4.1 Introduction: Definitions and Literature Review on Oral History and Gender

4.2 Embodied Narrative and Gender

23 Survivor Innocence and the Recovery of Political Pasts

2 The Cambodian Working Group

3 Class and History

4 "Intellectual Survivors" and Elite Trajectories

5 The Innocence of the Faithful

6 Cohabitation of Survivor Innocence and Complex Victimization

Primary Sources

24 Conducting Oral History with Ex-Enemies: the Dynamics of Former Antagonists

1 War, Gender, and Ethnicity in Establishing Rapport

2 The Case of the "comfort women"

3 Sense of Responsibility if You Are from the Aggressor's Side

4 The Healing Process: the Meaning of Expressing and Tracing Traumatic Memories

4.1 Narration and Healing

4.2 Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Traumatization

4.3 Managing the Emotional Toll of Oral History Research

4.4 Chain of Stress in the Household

4.5 Balancing Family and Fieldwork.

4.6 Support from Overseas and Continuing the Work.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-73718-9

9789004737181

OCLC:

1545639711

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004737181 DOI