Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Vaněk, Miroslav, 1961-

Title Around the globe : rethinking oral history with its protagonists
Edition 1st ed. in English
Published Prague : Charles University in Prague/Karolinum Press, 2013
©2013

Copies

Description 1 online resource (172 pages)
Contents Content -- 1/ Preface -- 2/ The reason for a book of interviews -- Researchers in the role of narrators -- Spheres of research -- How did the interviews continue? -- 3/ A book of interviews -- Rina Benmayor -- David King Dunaway -- Alexander Freund -- Ronald Grele -- Daniela Koleva -- Elizabeth Millwood -- Charles T. Morrissey -- Robert Perks -- Alexander von Plato -- Alessandro Portelli -- Donald A. Ritchie -- Alistair Thomson -- Paul Thompson -- 4/ Rules and ethics of oral historical research must be respected -- Bibliography
Summary Around the Globe. Rethinking Oral History with Its Protagonists presents interviews with thirteen prominent scholars focusing on oral history. In these interviews Professor Miroslav Vanek captures not only segments of life stories of these personalities, how and why they began their pursuit of oral history, but also their views of the status and importance of oral history within social sciences. The interviews reflect on how they cope with the frequently asked question concerning the subjective character of oral history, whether they consider oral history to be a discipline or method and wheth
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Oral history.
HISTORY -- Study & Teaching.
Oral history
Genre/Form Oral history.
Form Electronic book
Author Bílková, Petra, editor
Pranić, Martina, editor
ISBN 8024623749
9788024623740