Diverse Personnel in Libraries
Diversity
Identity
Interviewees
Interviewing
Life History
Memory
Mentoring
Oral Historians: Tasks and Roles
Oral History
Oral History: Definitions
Shared Authority
Spectrum Initiative
Storytelling
Trauma
Validity
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- “… oral history—that area where memory, myth, ideology, language, and historical cognition all interact in a dialectical transformation of the word into an historical artifact.” i
- “… oral history—the search for the ideological and mythic matrix of the cultural consciousness of the society through the development of the idea of history …” ii
- “Oral history is a science and art of the individual.” iii
i Harris, Alice Kessler, “Introduction,” In Grele, Ronald
J., Envelopes of Sound: The Art of Oral History 2nd ed. (Chicago: Precedent
Publishing, 1985), 7.
ii Grele, Ronald J., “Movement Without Aim: Methodological and Theoretical
Problems in Oral History,” In Grele, Ronald J., Envelopes of Sound:
The Art of Oral History 2nd ed. (Chicago: Precedent Publishing, 1985),
143.
iii Portelli, Alessandro (The Battle of Valle Guilia: Oral History and the
Art of Dialogue. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1997),
57.
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