| Description |
1 online resource (198 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
How stories work -- Introduction -- A career full of stories -- What's in a story -- Sorting out oral tradition and oral history -- Types of stories -- Personal narratives: shared one to another -- Gathering to tell stories: the neglected genre in oral history -- In search of the story: interviewers and their narrators -- Life histories: the constructed genre -- Issues raised by stories -- The whole truth and nothing but the truth -- Issues of REPRESENTation -- Intellectual property rights and the public: unfinished business -- The public record |
| Summary |
Illuminated by numerous stories collected from Alaska, the Yukon, and South Africa and further enlivened by the author's accessible style and experiences as a longtime oral historian and archivist, So They Understand is a comprehensive study of the special challenges and concerns involved in documenting, representing, preserving, and interpreting oral narratives |
| Notes |
"Documentation, representation, presentation, and interpretation, illustrated with stories from South Africa, Alaska, and the Yukon." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-190) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| In |
Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR |
| Subject |
Oral tradition.
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Oral history.
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oral histories (literary works)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Oral history
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Oral tradition
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Mondelinge geschiedenis (wetenschap)
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Verhalen.
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Culturele verschillen.
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Culturele aspecten.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0874214882 |
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9780874214888 |
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1282490478 |
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9781282490475 |
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9786612490477 |
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6612490470 |
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