Oral history Books
University of Toronto Press Reading History
Book SynopsisHistory students read a lot. They read primary sources. They read specialized articles and monographs. They sometimes read popular histories. And they read textbooks. Yet students are beginners, and as beginners they need to learn the differences among various kinds of readings – their natures, their challenges, and the unique expectations one needs to bring to each of them.Reading History is a practical guide to help students read better. Uniquely designed with the author’s engaging explanations in the margins, the book describes primary sources across various genres, including documents of practice, treatises, and literary works, as well as secondary sources such as textbooks, articles, and monographs. An appendix contains tips and questions for reading primary or secondary sources.Full of practical advice and hands-on training that allows students to be successful, Reading History will cultivate a wider appreciation for the discipline of Table of ContentsPreface Figures and Table Part I: Introduction 1. Introduction Part II: Primary Sources 2. From Manuscript to Edition 2.1 Editing 2.2 Kinds of Editions: Print and Online 2.3 Translations 3. Primary Source Basics and Two Documents of Practice 3.1 Questions about the Source 3.2 Drawing Historical Conclusions: Questions about the World beyond the Source 3.3 Reading against the Larger Historical Context 3.4 Documents of Practice 4. Narrative Sources and Cognate Sources 5. Literary Sources and Treatises 5.1 Literary Sources 5.2 Treatises 6. Material Evidence and Comparing Sources 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Art 6.3 Archaeological Evidence Part III: Secondary Sources 7. Historians Presenting Original Research: Monographs and Articles 8. Textbooks and Popular History 8.1 Textbooks 8.2 Popular History 8.3 Online Secondary Sources Part IV: Other Matters 9. Counting: Primary Sources and Secondary Sources 10. What Is in It for You? Appendix: Questions and Tips Suggestions for Further Reading
£15.19
University of Toronto Press Archival Material
Book SynopsisIn the mid- to late-1930s, while he was a student at the Gregorian University in Rome, Bernard Lonergan wrote a series of eight essays on the philosophy and theology of history. These essays foreshadow a number of the major themes in his life’s work. The significance of these essays is enormous, not only for an understanding of the later trajectory of Lonergan’s own work but also for the development of a contemporary systematic theology. In an important entry from 1965 in his archival papers, Lonergan wrote that the mediated object of systematics is Geschichte or the history that is lived and written about. In the same entry, he stated that the doctrines that this systematic theology would attempt to understand are focused on redemption. The seeds of such a theology are planted in the current volume, where the formulae that are so pronounced in his later work first appear. Students of Lonergan’s work will find their understanding of his philosophy Table of ContentsGeneral Editors’ Preface Robert M. Doran 1. Essay in Fundamental Sociology: Philosophy of History 2. Pantōn Anakephalaiōsis: A Theory of Human Solidarity 3. Pantōn Anakephalaiōsis (2) 4. Sketch for a Metaphysic of Human Solidarity 5. A Theory of History 6. Outline of an Analytic Concept of History 7. Analytic Concept of History, in Blurred Outline 8. Analytic Concept of History Latin and Greek Words and Phrases
£24.29
University of Toronto Press Ruhleben
Book SynopsisThis is an unusual book in that it is an important contribution to social psychology and also an absorbing story of four strange years in a German prison camp of World War I. Four thousand men and boys from the most varied walks of life—professors, seamen, jockeys, schoolboys, bank directors, musicians, clerks, scientists—were taken from civilian life and placed in Ruhleben on the outbreak of war; no activities were prescribed for them, no direction was given to their communal life. In the event, this miscellaneous group of people, closed off from the world, create d their own society. This book is the story of how they did it and what the society they made was like; much more than this, the camp provides a gifted and sympathetic social psychologist with a rare opportunity for study and analysis of an important if inadvertent social experiment. The time elapsed between the event itself and the completion of the book may in one way be regretted; it did, however, allow t
£30.60
University of Toronto Press The Fall of a Carolingian Kingdom
Book SynopsisThe Fall of a Carolingian Kingdom investigates how the first royal divorce scandal led to the collapse of a kingdom, changing the fate of medieval Europe. Through a set of annotated translations of key contemporary sources, the book presents the downfall of the Frankish kingdom of Lotharingia as a case study in early medieval politics, equipping readers to develop their own independent interpretations. The book tracks the twists and turns of the scandal as it unfolded over a crucial decade and a half in the ninth century. Drawing on primary sources such as letters, material culture, and secret treaties, The Fall of a Carolingian Kingdom offers readers a sharply defined window into one of the most dramatic episodes in Carolingian history, rich with insights on the workings of early medieval society.Table of ContentsList of Figures Abbreviations Key Individuals Introduction 1. King Lothar II Grants Winebert an Immunity, November 856 2. A Coin of King Lothar II (Undated) 3. The Quierzy Letter, November 858 4. The Remiremont Liber Memorialis “Royal Entry,” December 861 5. The Council of Aachen, 29 April 862 6. The Summit at Savonnières, November 862 7. Bishop Adventius Writes to Archbishop Theutgaud, Early 863 8. King Lothar II Grants a Church to the Convent of St-Pierre in Lyon, 18 May 863 9. Bishop Adventius Reforms the Monastery of Gorze, June 863 10. Eberhard and Gisela Make a Will, c. 863 11. Bishop Adventius Writes to Pope Nicholas, Early 864 12. The Bishops of Lotharingia Write to the West Frankish Bishops, c. 865 13. King Lothar II Grants Queen Theutberga Lands, 17 January 866 14. Pope Nicholas Writes about Waldrada to the Bishops of Gaul, Germany, and Italy, 13 June 866 15. Queen Ermentrude’s Coronation, 25 August 866 16. Pope Nicholas I Writes to King Charles the Bald, 25 January 867 17. Bishop Adventius Organizes Prayers against the Northmen, Summer 867 18. The Metz Oath, c. 868 19. King Lothar II Writes to Archbishop Ado of Vienne, July 869 20. Pope Hadrian II Writes to the Lotharingian Aristocracy, 5 September 869 21. The Sacramentary of Metz, 869 22. Emperor Louis II Writes to Emperor Basil I of Byzantium, Early 871 Conclusion Bibliography Index
£52.70
University of Toronto Press Learning behind Bars
Book SynopsisThis book sheds light on Irish republican prisoners during the Northern Irish Troubles and the ways in which they shaped the peace process from within the internment camps and prisons.Trade Review"Learning behind Bars is an interesting, informative and scholarly work." -- Gerry Moriarty * Irish Times *"..with its chronological panorama, and the geographical and organisational range of its interview partners, Reinisch’s book offers a valuable perspective on the experiences of republican prisoners at the periphery of the movement… his book is of undoubted value for scholars of the Northern Ireland conflict and, more broadly, for analysts of incarceration and the internal dynamics of militant social movements." -- Jack Hepworth, St Catherine’s College, Oxford * Oral History Journal *"This is an important account of the role of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoners who were imprisoned on both sides of the Irish border who were instrumental in starting the critical debate that ultimately contributed to resolving the Northern Ireland conflict through the 1994 Provisional (IRA) ceasefire and the Good Friday Agreement of 1998." -- Joshua Sinai * Perspectives on Terrorism *"Drawing on the experience of learners and employing a framework which enables generalisations to be made from the particularities of Ireland, Dieter Reinisch makes a powerful case for the value of education in prisons for prisoners, prisons, and the wider society." -- Daniel Weinbren, Open University * Journal of Prison Education and Reentry *Table of ContentsIllustrations Preface Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Irish Prison Arena: Republican Prisoners and the Northern Ireland Conflict 2. “Portlaoise is an example for this”: Portlaoise Prison Protests, 1973–7 3. “No prisoner has the right to advance the education of another”: Education in Portlaoise Prison 4. The Harvey/McCaughey/Smith Cumann: Sinn Féin in Portlaoise Prison, 1978–86 5. “He was just rhyming off pages of it”: Internment and the Brownie Papers, 1971–7 6. Marxist Esperanto and Socialism in Cell 26: Reading, Thinking, and Writing in the H-Blocks, 1983–9 7. “It's only when you look back …”: The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Peace Process in the 1990s Conclusion: An Irish Century of Camps Interview Partners Notes Bibliography Index
£41.40
University of Toronto Press Contested Fields
Book SynopsisFew cultural activities speak more powerfully to international histories of the modern world than football. In the late nineteenth century, this cheap and simple sport emerged as a major legacy of Britain’s formal and informal empires and spread quickly across Europe, South America, and Africa. Today, football (known to many as soccer) is arguably the world’s most popular pastime, an activity played and watched by millions of people around the globe. Contested Fields introduces readers to key aspects of the global game, synthesizing research on football’s transnational role in reflecting and shaping political, socio-economic, and cultural developments over the past 150 years. Each chapter uses case studies and cutting-edge scholarship to analyze an important element of football’s international story: migration, money, competition, gender, race, space, spectatorship, and confrontation. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Modern Football: A Timeline 1. Introduction 2. Migrations 3. Money 4. Competitions 5. Gender 6. Race 7. Spaces 8. Spectators 9. Confrontations 10. Conclusion Appendix: FIFA Member Associations Select Bibliography Index
£17.99
University of Toronto Press Contested Fields
Book SynopsisFew cultural activities speak more powerfully to international histories of the modern world than football. In the late nineteenth century, this cheap and simple sport emerged as a major legacy of Britain’s formal and informal empires and spread quickly across Europe, South America, and Africa. Today, football (known to many as soccer) is arguably the world’s most popular pastime, an activity played and watched by millions of people around the globe. Contested Fields introduces readers to key aspects of the global game, synthesizing research on football’s transnational role in reflecting and shaping political, socio-economic, and cultural developments over the past 150 years. Each chapter uses case studies and cutting-edge scholarship to analyze an important element of football’s international story: migration, money, competition, gender, race, space, spectatorship, and confrontation. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Modern Football: A Timeline 1. Introduction 2. Migrations 3. Money 4. Competitions 5. Gender 6. Race 7. Spaces 8. Spectators 9. Confrontations 10. Conclusion Appendix: FIFA Member Associations Select Bibliography Index
£42.30
University of Nebraska Press Yupik Words of Wisdom
Book SynopsisThis bilingual volume focuses on the teachings, experiences, and practical wisdom of expert Native orators as they instruct a younger generation about their place in the world. In carefully crafted presentations, Yup'ik elders speak about their ""rules for right living"" - values, beliefs, and practices - which illuminate the enduring and still-relevant foundations of their culture today.Trade Review“Significant and timely. . . . Wise Words of the Yup’ik People and Yup’ik Words of Wisdom together honor the richness of oral tradition among Alaska Natives while addressing a broader audience of the next generation of Yup’ik people, scholars of various disciplines, and policymakers alike.”—Andrea D. Robertson, Pacific Northwest Quarterly “[Yup’ik Words of Wisdom] will prove to be a valuable record of Yup’ik tradition and knowledge not only for young people who might want to spend a few minutes reading, but also for scholars of oral history in the future.”—Polar Record “Valuable. . . . These texts are important vehicles for both the preservation and use of Yup’ik traditional knowledge for self-determination.”—CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction to the New Bison Books Edition Acknowledgments Introduction Yup’ik Transcription and Translation List of Yup’ik Contributors1. Tegganret Qalartellruut Ayagyuat-llu Niicugniluteng Elders Spoke and Young People Listened2. Umyuaq Tuknilria A Powerful Mind3. Qanruyutet-gguq Egelrutaakut They Say the Qanruyutet Guide Our Lives4. Angayuqat Mikelnguut-llu Parents and Children5. Angutet Arnat-llu Men and Women6. Ilameggnek Tukuulriit Those Who Are Rich in Relatives7. Tuqluucaraq The Way of Addressing One’s Relatives8. Eyagyarat Abstinence Practices9. Tuarpiaq Yuuyaraat Yupiit Teguq’aqsi Catching the Yup’ik Way of Life GlossaryTuqluutet: Yup’ik Kinship and Relational Terms
£35.10
University of Nebraska Press Yupik Words of Wisdom
Book SynopsisThis bilingual volume focuses on the teachings, experiences, and practical wisdom of expert Native orators as they instruct a younger generation about their place in the world. In carefully crafted presentations, Yup'ik elders speak about their ""rules for right living"" - values, beliefs, and practices - which illuminate the enduring and still-relevant foundations of their culture today.Trade Review“Significant and timely. . . . Wise Words of the Yup’ik People and Yup’ik Words of Wisdom together honor the richness of oral tradition among Alaska Natives while addressing a broader audience of the next generation of Yup’ik people, scholars of various disciplines, and policymakers alike.”—Andrea D. Robertson, Pacific Northwest Quarterly “[Yup’ik Words of Wisdom] will prove to be a valuable record of Yup’ik tradition and knowledge not only for young people who might want to spend a few minutes reading, but also for scholars of oral history in the future.”—Polar Record “Valuable. . . . These texts are important vehicles for both the preservation and use of Yup’ik traditional knowledge for self-determination.”—CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction to the New Bison Books Edition Acknowledgments Introduction Yup’ik Transcription and Translation List of Yup’ik Contributors1. Tegganret Qalartellruut Ayagyuat-llu Niicugniluteng Elders Spoke and Young People Listened2. Umyuaq Tuknilria A Powerful Mind3. Qanruyutet-gguq Egelrutaakut They Say the Qanruyutet Guide Our Lives4. Angayuqat Mikelnguut-llu Parents and Children5. Angutet Arnat-llu Men and Women6. Ilameggnek Tukuulriit Those Who Are Rich in Relatives7. Tuqluucaraq The Way of Addressing One’s Relatives8. Eyagyarat Abstinence Practices9. Tuarpiaq Yuuyaraat Yupiit Teguq’aqsi Catching the Yup’ik Way of Life GlossaryTuqluutet: Yup’ik Kinship and Relational Terms
£18.89
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Making Music The Banjo in a Southern Appalachian
Book SynopsisThe banjo has been emblematic of the southern Appalachian Mountains since the late twentieth century. Making Music takes a close look at the instrument and banjo players in Haywood County, North Carolina, and presents the oral histories of thirty-two banjo players.
£22.49
University of South Carolina Press Jazz and Blues Musicians of South Carolina:
Book SynopsisThis book offers an oral history of musical genres from the Palmetto state musicians who helped define the sounds.From Jabbo Smith, Dizzy Gillespie, and Drink Small to Johnny Helms, Dick Goodwin, and Chris Potter, South Carolina has been home to an impressive number of well-known jazz and blues musicians. Through richly detailed interviews with 19 South Carolina musicians, Franklin presents an oral history of the tradition and influence of jazz and the blues in the Palmetto State.Franklin takes as his subjects a range of musicians born between 1905 and 1971, representing every decade in between, to trace the progression of these musical genres from Tommy Benford's and Jabbo Smith's first recording sessions in the summer of 1926 to the present day. Diverse not only in age but also in race, gender, instruments, and style, these musicians exemplify the breadth of jazz and blues performers from South Carolina.In their own colorful words, the performers recall their love affairs with the distinctive sounds of jazz and blues, indoctrinations into the musical word, early gigs, life on the tour bus, fans, drugs, military service, amateur night at the Apollo Theater, and influential friendships with other well-known musicians. As the story of South Carolina musical scene is tightly interwoven with that of the nation, these narratives also include appearances by Tony Bennett, Miles Davis, Count Basie, Herman Lubinsky, Helen Merrill, Pharoah Sanders, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and other significant musicians.
£24.65
Arc Humanities Press John Miles Foley's World of Oralities: Text,
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£136.24
Arc Humanities Press John Miles Foley's World of Oralities: Text,
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University of Manitoba Press Legends of the Capilano
Book SynopsisBringing the Legends home Legends of the Capilano updates E. Pauline Johnson’s 1911 classic Legends of Vancouver, restoring Johnson’s intended title for the first time. This new edition celebrates the storytelling abilities of Johnson’s Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) collaborators, Joe and Mary Capilano, and supplements the original fifteen legends with five additional stories narrated solely or in part by Mary Capilano, highlighting her previously overlooked contributions to the book. Alongside photographs and biographical entries for E. Pauline Johnson, Joe Capilano, and Mary Capilano, editor Alix Shield provides a detailed publishing history of Legends since its first appearance in 1911. Interviews with literary scholar Rick Monture (Mohawk) and archaeologist Rudy Reimer (Skwxwú7mesh) further considers the legacy of Legends in both scholars’ home communities. Compiled in consultation with the Mathias family, the direct descendants of Joe and Mary Capilano and members of the Skwxwú7mesh Nation, this edition reframes, reconnects, and reclaims the stewardship of these stories.Table of Contents Foreward Author's Foreward to the 1911 Edition Introduction E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) Chief Joe Capilano (Sahp-luk) Mary Capilano (Lixwelut) From London (1906) to Vancouver (1909) "Periodicals First": Mother's Magazine and the Vancouver Daily Province The Publications of Legends (and Recovering Mary Capilano's Narrative Voice) Legends of Vancouver, or Legends of the Capilano? Legends of Vancouver: An Overview of Key Editions (1911-2013) Johnson's Final Will & Other Adaptations of Legends Legends of the Capilano: A Collaborative Approach Legends of the Capilano The Two Sisters The Siwash Rock The Recluse The Lost Salmon Run The Deep Waters The Sea-Serpent The Lost Island Point Grey The Tulameen Trail The Grey Archway Deadman's Island A Squamish Legend of Napoleon The Lure in Stanley Park Deer Lake A Royal Mohawk Chief Stories of Mary Agnes Capilano The Legend of the Two Sisters The Legend of the Squamish Twins The Legend of the Seven Swans The Legend of Lillooet Falls The Legend of the Ice Babies
£19.96
University of Calgary Press Remembering Our Relations: Dënesųłıné Oral Histories of Wood Buffalo National Park
Book SynopsisWood Buffalo National Park is located in the heart of Dénesųłıuné homelands, where Dené people have lived from time immemorial. Central to the creation, expansion, and management of this park, Canada 's largest at nearly 45, 000 square kilometers, was the eviction of Dénesųłıuné people from their home, the forced separation of Dené families, and restriction of their Treaty rights. Remembering Our Relations tells the history of Wood Buffalo National Park from a Dené perspective and within the context of Treaty 8. Oral history and testimony from Dené Elders, knowledge-holders, leaders, and community members place Dénesųłıuné voices first. With supporting archival research, this book demonstrates how the founding, expansion, and management of Wood Buffalo National Park fits into a wider pattern of promises broken by settler colonial governments managing land use throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. By prioritizing Dénesųłıuné histories Remembering Our Relations deliberately challenges how Dené experiences have been erased, and how this erasure has been used to justify violence against Dénesųłıuné homelands and people. Amplifying the voices and lives of the past, present, and future, Remembering Our Relations is a crucial step in the journey for healing and justice Dénesųłıuné peoples have been pursuing for over a century.
£26.96
Liverpool University Press Singing the Law: Oral Jurisprudence and the
Book SynopsisSinging the Law is about the legal lives and afterlives of oral cultures in East Africa, particularly as they appear within the pages of written literatures during the colonial and postcolonial periods. In examining these cultures, this book begins with an analysis of the cultural narratives of time and modernity that formed the foundations of British colonial law. Recognizing the contradictory nature of these narratives (i.e., both promoting and retreating from the Euro-centric ideal of temporal progress) enables us to make sense of the many representations of and experiments with non-linear, open-ended, and otherwise experimental temporalities that we find in works of East African literature that take colonial law as a subject or point of critique. Many of these works, furthermore, consciously appropriate orature as an expressive form with legal authority. This affords them the capacity to challenge the narrative foundations of colonial law and its postcolonial residues and offer alternative models of temporality and modernity that give rise, in turn, to alternative forms of legality. East Africa’s “oral jurisprudence” ultimately has implications not only for our understanding of law and literature in colonial and postcolonial contexts, but more broadly for our understanding of how the global south has shaped modern law as we know and experience it today.Trade ReviewReviews'Singing the Law is an exemplary contribution to the burgeoning field of postcolonial literature and law scholarship. Leman makes a compelling case for why we should pay attention to the relationship between a specific literary form—memoir, drama, dictator fiction, dialogical epic poetry—and oral and written law.'Anne W. Gulick, University of South CarolinaTable of ContentsIntroductionTemp/orality in Law and East African LiteratureChapter 1Catching History by the Tail: Colonial Non-Fiction, Aristocratic Atavism, and the Crisis of Modernity in KenyaChapter 2A Song Whose Time Has Come: Northern Uganda, Apocalyptic Futures, and the Oral Jurisprudence of Okot p’BitekChapter 3Between Formal and Infinite Time: Labor Law and Revolutionary Futures in Kenyan Popular PerformanceChapter 4Time Heals All Regimes: Temporality, Somali Oral Law, and the Illegality of African DictatorshipsConclusionTemp/orality and Law in the End TimesBibliography
£109.50
Liverpool University Press 'The Age-Old Struggle': Irish republicanism from
Book SynopsisThis is a wide-ranging analysis of the internal dynamics of Irish republicanism between the outbreak of ‘the Troubles’ in 1969 and the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. Engaging a vast array of hitherto unused primary sources alongside original and re-used oral history interviews, ‘The Age-Old Struggle’ draws upon the words and writings of more than 250 Irish republicans. This book scrutinises the movement's historical and contemporary complexity, the variety of influences within Irish republicanism, and divergent republican responses at pivotal moments in the conflict. Yet it also assesses the centripetal forces which connected republican organisations through decades of struggle.Across five thematic chapters, ‘The Age-Old Struggle’ offers new insights into republicanism’s multi-layered interactions with the global ’68, tactical and strategic change, revolutionary socialism, feminism, and religion. Drawing on political periodicals, ephemera, and interviews with activists throughout the ranks of several republican groups, the book roots its analysis in republicanism’s temporal and spatial complexity. It contends that the cultural significance of place, interactions with class and revolutionary politics, and shifting intra-movement networks are essential to understanding the movement’s dynamics since 1969.Trade Review'Jack Hepworth has produced one of the great books on Provisional Irish republicanism. Forensically researched, it provides unique and fresh insights into how rank-and-file volunteers responded to seismic events in local, national and international politics from the start of the Troubles to the signing of the Good Friday Agreement.'Dr Paddy Hoey, Edge Hill University'This book is a fresh and significant addition to the literature on modern Irish republicanism. Hepworth illustrates the diversity of ideas within the republican movement by discussing the influence of feminism, socialism and religion, while also noting the impact of global events on activists. An important and nuanced book.'Dr Brian Hanley, Trinity College DublinTable of Contents‘The Age-Old Struggle’: Introduction1. The Global ’68 and its Afterlives2. Shifting Strategies3. ‘We Believed We Were on the Verge of World Revolution’: Irish Republicanism and the Revolutionary Left4. Feminism and Women’s Activism5. Catholicism‘The Age-Old Struggle’: Conclusion
£104.00
Liverpool University Press Singing the Law: Oral Jurisprudence and the
Book SynopsisSinging the Law is about the legal lives and afterlives of oral cultures in East Africa, particularly as they appear within the pages of written literatures during the colonial and postcolonial periods. In examining these cultures, this book begins with an analysis of the cultural narratives of time and modernity that formed the foundations of British colonial law. Recognizing the contradictory nature of these narratives (i.e., both promoting and retreating from the Euro-centric ideal of temporal progress) enables us to make sense of the many representations of and experiments with non-linear, open-ended, and otherwise experimental temporalities that we find in works of East African literature that take colonial law as a subject or point of critique. Many of these works, furthermore, consciously appropriate orature as an expressive form with legal authority. This affords them the capacity to challenge the narrative foundations of colonial law and its postcolonial residues and offer alternative models of temporality and modernity that give rise, in turn, to alternative forms of legality. East Africa’s “oral jurisprudence” ultimately has implications not only for our understanding of law and literature in colonial and postcolonial contexts, but more broadly for our understanding of how the global south has shaped modern law as we know and experience it today.Trade ReviewReviews'Singing the Law is an exemplary contribution to the burgeoning field of postcolonial literature and law scholarship. Leman makes a compelling case for why we should pay attention to the relationship between a specific literary form—memoir, drama, dictator fiction, dialogical epic poetry—and oral and written law.'Anne W. Gulick, University of South CarolinaTable of ContentsIntroductionTemp/orality in Law and East African LiteratureChapter 1Catching History by the Tail: Colonial Non-Fiction, Aristocratic Atavism, and the Crisis of Modernity in KenyaChapter 2A Song Whose Time Has Come: Northern Uganda, Apocalyptic Futures, and the Oral Jurisprudence of Okot p’BitekChapter 3Between Formal and Infinite Time: Labor Law and Revolutionary Futures in Kenyan Popular PerformanceChapter 4Time Heals All Regimes: Temporality, Somali Oral Law, and the Illegality of African DictatorshipsConclusionTemp/orality and Law in the End TimesBibliography
£29.99
Liverpool University Press Steel City Readers: Reading for Pleasure in
Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Steel City Readers* makes available, and interprets in detail, a large body of new evidence about past cultures and communities of reading. Its distinctive method is to listen to readers' own voices, rather than theorising about them as an undifferentiated group. Its cogent and engaging structure traces reading journeys from childhood into education and adulthood, and attends to settings from home to school to library. It has a distinctive focus on reading for pleasure and its framework of argument situates that type of reading in relation to dimensions of gender and class. It is grounded in place, and particularly in the context of a specific industrial city: Sheffield. The men and women featured in the book, coming to adulthood in the 1930s and 1940s, rarely regarded reading as a means of self-improvement. It was more usually a compulsive and intensely pleasurable private activity.Trade Review\‘This is a fascinating and important study. It will be a rich and rare resource. Mary Grover has done a superb job illuminating the meaning of reading in individual lives as well as giving us insights into the local and national contexts.\’ - Alison Light, author of Common People: The History of an English Family ‘Steel City Readers provides an excellent opportunity to appreciate the power of reading and the changes reading for pleasure brings to a community and its literary legacies.’ - The Sheffield TelegraphTable of ContentsIntroduction: Reading, ‘I saw no living in it’1. At Home with Books2. Running up Eyre Street: Independent Young Readers and the Public Libraries3. Hefty Books and Tuppenny Weeklies4. Reading Scenes: Cultural Networks and Reading5. ‘Getting them Learned’: Books in the Classroom6. The 1937 ‘Confession’ Book of Mary Wilkinson: Reading and the Second World War7. ‘You can read and dance’: Marriage, Work and Play8. ‘Anna Karenina, you know, and all the normal things’: Sheffield Readers, Classics and the ContemporaryThe Last Word
£34.01
University of KwaZulu-Natal Press Oral History in a Wounded Country Interactive
Book SynopsisShows how the cultural, political, socio-economic and intellectual evolutions that gave birth to South Africa affect the oral history process. This book seeks to help practitioners to reflect critically on their practice and find better ways of handling the interview process.
£23.96
Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Horn of Africa Diasporas in Italy: An Oral
Book SynopsisThis book delves into the history of the Horn of Africa diaspora in Italy and Europe through the stories of those who fled to Italy from East African states. It draws on oral history research carried out by the BABE project (Bodies Across Borders: Oral and Visual Memories in Europe and Beyond) in a host of cities across Italy that explored topics including migration journeys, the memory of colonialism in the Horn of Africa, cultural identity in Italy and Europe, and Mediterranean crossings. This book shows how the cultural memory of interviewees is deeply linked to an intersubjective context that is changing Italian and European identities. The collected narratives reveal the existence of another Italy – and another Europe – through stories that cross national and European borders and unfold in transnational and global networks. They tell of the multiple identities of the diaspora and reconsider the geography of the continent, in terms of experiences, emotions, and close relationships, and help reinterpret the history and legacy of Italian colonialism. Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Diasporic Identities2. Geographies of Emotions3. Postcolonial Memories of Colonialism4. The Black Mediterranean5. ConclusionAppendix.
£94.99
Springer Erinnerungen für HEUTE und MORGEN
Book SynopsisWidmung.- Profile der Herausgeberinnen.- Inhaltsverzeichnis.- 1. Buch Vor- und Grußworte.- 2. Kurzintro für Schnell-LeserInnen (dt/ engl./ frz).- 3. Einführung.-4. Wenn Wege sich kreuzen – We are one.- 5. Ich und die Gemeinschaft.- 6. Erinnerungskultur-Shoa in der Grundschule: Methoden für den Unterricht.- 7. Zukunftswerkstatt.- 8. ….. kommt zu Wort.- 9.Wie lassen sich Holocaust-Erlebnisse in Musik und Theater übertragen?.- 10. Besondere Highlights.- 11. Erfahrung als Modell.- 12. Forever present.- 13. Der Sauerbraten.- 14. Ausblick.- 15. Schlussworte.- 16. Danksagung.- 17. Auf dem Weg zum Buch.- 18. Glossar.- 19. Buchempfehlungen.
£37.99
Information Age Publishing The Power of Oral History Narratives: Lived
Book SynopsisThe significance of this book is its uniqueness. First, the book contains a collection of fourteen chapters that capture the personal, professional, and historical experiences of international global scholars and artists to which they were subjected in their native country and after they immigrated to the United States. What makes this book project highly unusual in comparison to other publications is that these international global scholars and artists experienced historical events of trauma and joy in their native country and in their newly adopted country of the United States that lie deeply buried in their sub-consciousness; that these memories are unforgettable and still painful for them; that these memories are a constant companion in their daily lives; and that the experienced historical events of trauma and joy have shaped their professional and personal lives to this very day. There exists a paucity in the global education literature of this far-reaching topic and, thus, it has the potential to enhance and diversify the global education literature.Second, the significance of this book lies in the pedagogical power of the oral history narrative tradition and its impact on students at the secondary and tertiary levels in education. When one's lived experiences of trauma or joy occur during a critical time in history, they rarely yield unforgotten memories and deeply held private knowledge that do not come to light without a storyteller. When first-hand accounts are shared publicly, they can bring powerful insights into past historic events to the very presence. Thus, the pedagogical strength of this book contributes to knowledge creation in the classroom as oral histories move students from abstract textbook descriptions to concrete and compelling "lived" stories associated with historical happenings. This pedagogy leads students to become more critical of historical events of the past and develops in them a deeper understanding of the past. Consequently, oral history narratives enable teachers and teacher educators to enrich the abstract text of textbooks with the authentic voice of the individual.A third significance of this book lies embedded in the rich historical perspective displayed by storytellers of non-native international global scholars and artists from around the world who portray their lived-through, first-hand experiences such as child labor, communism, hate, hunger, fascism, fear, intolerance, discrimination, prejudice, poverty, war, protest, and death. Finally, a major purpose of this book is to expose young learners from around the world to empowering non-native international role models in global education and the arts from nations in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Eurasia, Europe, the Middle East, and South America who build bridges—not walls—between peoples and nations.
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Information Age Publishing The Power of Oral History Narratives: Lived
Book SynopsisThe significance of this book is its uniqueness. First, the book contains a collection of fourteen chapters that capture the personal, professional, and historical experiences of international global scholars and artists to which they were subjected in their native country and after they immigrated to the United States. What makes this book project highly unusual in comparison to other publications is that these international global scholars and artists experienced historical events of trauma and joy in their native country and in their newly adopted country of the United States that lie deeply buried in their sub-consciousness; that these memories are unforgettable and still painful for them; that these memories are a constant companion in their daily lives; and that the experienced historical events of trauma and joy have shaped their professional and personal lives to this very day. There exists a paucity in the global education literature of this far-reaching topic and, thus, it has the potential to enhance and diversify the global education literature.Second, the significance of this book lies in the pedagogical power of the oral history narrative tradition and its impact on students at the secondary and tertiary levels in education. When one's lived experiences of trauma or joy occur during a critical time in history, they rarely yield unforgotten memories and deeply held private knowledge that do not come to light without a storyteller. When first-hand accounts are shared publicly, they can bring powerful insights into past historic events to the very presence. Thus, the pedagogical strength of this book contributes to knowledge creation in the classroom as oral histories move students from abstract textbook descriptions to concrete and compelling "lived" stories associated with historical happenings. This pedagogy leads students to become more critical of historical events of the past and develops in them a deeper understanding of the past. Consequently, oral history narratives enable teachers and teacher educators to enrich the abstract text of textbooks with the authentic voice of the individual.A third significance of this book lies embedded in the rich historical perspective displayed by storytellers of non-native international global scholars and artists from around the world who portray their lived-through, first-hand experiences such as child labor, communism, hate, hunger, fascism, fear, intolerance, discrimination, prejudice, poverty, war, protest, and death. Finally, a major purpose of this book is to expose young learners from around the world to empowering non-native international role models in global education and the arts from nations in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Eurasia, Europe, the Middle East, and South America who build bridges—not walls—between peoples and nations.
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OUP USA Medieval Folklore
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Book SynopsisIn Family Memory: Practices, Transmissions and Uses in a Global Perspective, researchers from five different continents explore the significance of family memory as an analytical tool and a research concept.Family memory is the most important memory community. This volume illustrates the range and power of family memories, often neglected by memory studies dealing with larger mnemonic entities. This book highlights the potential of family memory research for understanding societies'past and present and the need for a more comprehensive and systematic use of family memories. The contributors explain how family memories can be a valuable resource across a range of settings pertaining to individual and collective identities, national memories, intergenerational transmission processes and migration, transnational and diasporic studies. This volume presents the past, present and future of family memory as a prospective field of memory studies and the role of fTrade ReviewCollective memory starts in the family. This rich and exciting collection provides deep insights into the dynamics of family memory across the globe. It is an indispensable companion for all those working in the field of transnational memory studies.Astrid Erll, Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Goethe University Frankfurt, GermanyThis timely collection offers a rich history and a compelling argument for the study of family memory. It opens new and exciting paths for memory studies and beyond, and will become an instant touchstone for scholars across disciplines. The global take of this truly international volume is much-needed in a field that has often been national or euro-centric in focus. Ashley Barnwell, Senior Research Fellow in Sociology, University of Melbourne, AustraliaFamily is the most important memory community’, writes the editor of this wide-ranging collection. The essays in this volume exemplify, complicate, and challenge this claim. What kind of community is a family? What kind of inheritance is memory? How is it fashioned, passed on, re-remembered? How do collective memories mesh with or contradict other social and political narratives? And how does relating memories differ from storytelling? These are some of the questions which an impressive group of international scholars address in their rigorous and sensitive analyses of the concept of family memory and its uses in a research context. This is a fascinating collection which takes us into the very heart of the different ways in which we make and re-make our selves across time. It gave me much food for thought and inspiration for future projects. Alison Light, Senior Research Fellow in English and History, Pembroke College, Oxford, UKTable of Contents1. Family Memory as a Prospective Field of Memory Studies: Past, Present, Future PART I: Private and Public Practices of Building Family Memory 2. Family Voices and the Practice of Memory: Five Generations of Women in Rome 3. The Buarque de Holanda: Family Memory and Political Engagement in the Public Space in Brazil 4. The Ntsimane Family Traditions and Rituals in Pre- and Post-1994 South Africa PART II: Intergenerational Transmission of Social and Political Values 5. Czech Family Stories of Communism: Family Memories at the Intersection of Family Values, Family Relations and National Memory 6. Family Memories for Communism in Bulgaria: Destiny and Resource 7. Family Memories of Second-Generation Republican Women Exiled to Mexico PART III: Family Memory of Violent Events and Genocide 8. "Facts, not Emotions": Changing Generational Needs and New Meanings of the Memory of the Armenian Genocide 9. Family Memories and the Development of the Genocide Ideology in Rwanda 10. Exile and Soviet Memoirs: Family Mansions in Aristocratic Family Memories after the Russian Revolution PART IV: Family Memory, Family Identity and Digital Media 11. Family Memories, Family Histories and the Identities of Settler Family Descendants in New Zealand 12. What do Family Memories Mean?: Navigating the Unfinished Archives after the Partition of India 13. "Got my Finn Tattoo!": Sharing Family Memories on Facebook
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