Oral History and Public Memories

by Paula Hamilton

Critical Perspectives on the Past (2008)

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Oral history is inherently about memory, and when oral history interviews are used ""in public,"" they invariably both reflect and shape public memories of the past. Oral History and Public Memories is the only book that explores this relationship, in fourteen case studies of oral history's use in a variety of venues and media around the world. Readers will learn, for example, of oral history based efforts to reclaim community memory in post-apartheid Cape Town, South Africa; of the role show more of personal testimony in changing public understanding of Japanese American history in the Am show less

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Paula Hamilton
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Critical Perspectives on the Past
40 works (2008)

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Oral History and Public Memories

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Nonfiction, History
DDC/MDS
907.2 — History & geography History Education, research, related topics of history Research
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D16.14 .O735 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania History (General)
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