ORAL HISTORY and PUBLIC MEMORIES

ORAL HISTORY and PUBLIC MEMORIES

Oral history is inherently about memory, and when oral history interviews are used \u0022in public,\u0022 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�...

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Other Authors: Hamilton, Paula 1951- (Editor), Shopes, Linda (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia Temple University Press 2008
©2008
Series:Critical perspectives on the past
Subjects:
Oral history
Collective memory
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Table of Contents:
  • Parks Canada, the commemoration of Canada, and northern Aboriginal oral history / David Neufeld
  • History from above : the use of oral history in shaping collective memory in Singapore / Kevin Blackburn
  • Mapping memories : oral history for Aboriginal cultural heritage in New South Wales, Australia / Maria Nugent
  • Moving beyond the walls : the oral history of the Ottoman fortress Villages of Seddulbahir and Kumkale / Isil Cerem Cenker and Lucienne Thys-Senocak
  • Private memory in a public space : oral history and museums / Selma Thomas
  • Imagining communities : memory, loss, and resilience in post-apartheid Cape Town / Sean field
  • Contested places in public memory : reflections on personal testimony and oral history in Japanese American heritage / Gail Lee Dubrow
  • "Scars in the ground" : Kauri Gum stories / Senka Bozic-Vrbancic
  • Memory and mourning : living oral history with queer Latinos and Latinas in San Francisco / Horacio N. Roque Ramirez
  • Interfaced memory : black World War II ex-GIs' and veterans' reunions of the late twentieth century / Robert F. Jefferson
  • Public memory as arena of contested meanings : a student project on migration / Riki van Boeschoten
  • Countering corporate narratives from the streets : the Cleveland Homeless Oral History Project / Daniel Kerr
  • Public memory, gender, and national identity in post-war Kosovo : the Albanian community / Silvia Salvatici
  • Seeing the past, visions of the future : memory workshops with internally displaced persons in Colombia / Pilar Riano-Alcala.

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