Edited by Donald A. Ritchie
In the past sixty years, oral history has moved from the periphery to the mainstream of academic studies, being employed as a research tool by historians, anthropologists, sociologists, medical therapists, documentary film makers, and educators at all levels. The Oxford Handbook of Oral History
brings together forty authors on five continents to address the evolution of oral history, the impact of digital technology, the most recent methodological and archival issues, and the application of oral history to both scholarly research and public presentations. The volume is addressed to
seasoned practitioners as well as to newcomers, offering diverse perspectives on the current state of the field and its likely future developments. Some of its articles survey large areas of oral history research and examine how they developed; others offer case studies that deal with specific
projects, issues, and applications of oral history. From the Holocaust, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, the Falklands War in Argentina, the Velvet Revolution in Eastern Europe, to memories of September 11, 2001 and of Hurricane Katrina, the creative and essential efforts of
oral historians worldwide are examined and explained in this multipurpose handbook.
Contributors
Donald A. Ritchie: Introduction: The Evolution of Oral History
Part I The Nature of Interviewing
1. Mary Kay Quinlan: The Dynamics of Interviewing
2. Miroslav Vanek: Those Who Prevailed and Those Who Were Replaced: Interviewing on Both Sides of a
Conflict:
3. William Schneider: Interviewing in Cross-Cultural Settings
4. Mercedes Vilanova: Case Study: Oral History and Democracy: Lessons from Illiterates
Part II Memory and History
5. Alistair Thomson: Memory and Remembering in Oral History
6. Anna Green: Can Memory
be Collective?
7. Alessandro Portelli: Case Study: Rome's House of Memory and History: The Politics of Memory and Public Institutions
8. Federico Guillermo Lorenz: How Does One Win a Lost War? Oral History and Political Memories
9. Sean Field: Disappointed Remains: Trauma, Testimony and
Reconciliation in Post-Apartheid South Africa
10. Philippe Denis: Case Study: Memory Work with Children Affected by HIV/AIDS in South Africa
Part III Theory and Interpretation
11. Sue Armitage: The Stages of Women's Oral History
12. Albert Broussard: Race and Oral
History
13. Joanna Bornat: Remembering in Later Life: Generating Individual and Social Change
14. Paula Hamilton: Oral History and the Senses
15. Megan Hutching: After Action: Oral History and War
16. Jessica Wiederhorn: Case Study: "Above all, we need the witness": The Oral History
of Holocaust Survivors
17. Case Study: Field Notes on Catastrophe: Reflections on the September 11, 2001
Mary Marshall Clark: Oral History Memory and Narrative Project
Part IV The Technological Impact
18. Brien Williams: Doing Video Oral History
19. Albert Lichtblau: Case
Study: Opening Up Memory Space: The Challenges of Audiovisual History
20. Doug Boyd: Achieving the Promise of Oral History in a Digital Age
21. Clifford M. Kuhn: Oral History: Media, Message, and Meaning
22. Robert B. Perks: Messiah with a Microphone? Oral Historians, Technology, and
Sound Archives
23. Michael Frisch and Douglas Lambert: Case Study: Between the Raw and the Cooked in Oral History: Notes from the Kitchen
Part V Legal, Ethical and Archival Imperatives
24. John Neuenschwander: The Legal Ramifications of Oral History
25. Michelle Winslow and
Graham Smith: Medical Ethics and Oral History
26. Beth M. Robertson: The Archival Imperative: Can Oral History Survive the Funding Crisis in Archival Institutions?
27. Jacquelyn Dowd Hall interviewed by Kathryn Nasstrom: Case Study: The Southern Oral History Program
28. Richard Cándida
Smith: Case Study: What is it that University-Based Oral History Can Do? The Berkeley Experience
Part VI Presenting Oral History
29. Graham Smith: Towards a Public Oral History
30. Glenn Whitman: Motivating the Twenty-First-Century Student with Oral History
31. Janis Wilton:
Oral History in Universities: From Margins to Mainstream
32. Rina Benmayor: Case Study: Engaging Interpretation through Digital Technologies
33. Sheila Brennan, James Halabuk, Sharon Leon, Tom Scheinfeldt, and Kelly Schrum: Oral History in the Digital Age
Index
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Donald A. Ritchie is an Historian, U.S. Senate, author of The U.S. Congress: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2010), Reporting from Washington (OUP, 2005), Doing Oral History (2/E, OUP, 2003), et al, and former president of the Oral History Association.
Doing Oral History - Donald A. Ritchie
Writing History - William Kelleher Storey and Towser Jones
