Oral history Books
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.
£101.70
OUP USA Medieval Folklore
Book SynopsisOver a decade in the making, Medieval Folklore offers a wide-ranging guide to the lore of the Middle Ages--from the mundane to the supernatural. Definitive and lively articles focus on the great tales and traditions of the age and includes information on daily and nightly customs and activities; religious beliefs of the pagan, Christian, Muslim, and Jew; key works of oral and written literature; traditional music and art; holidays and feasts; food and drink; and plants and animals, both real and fantastical. While most books on medieval folklore focus primarily on the West, this unique volume brings together an eclectic range of experts to treat the subject from a global perspective. Especially remarkable are the surveys of the major medieval traditions including Arab-Islamic, Baltic, English, Finno-Ugric, French, Hispanic, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Jewish, Scandinavian, Scottish, Slavic, and Welsh. For anyone who has ever wanted a path through the tangle of Arthurian legends,
£16.64
Taylor & Francis RecordMaking and RecordKeeping in Early Societies
Book SynopsisRecord-Making and Record-Keeping in Early Societies provides a concise and up-to-date survey of early record-making and record-keeping practices across the world. It investigates the ways in which human activities have been recorded in different settings using different methods and technologies.Based on an in-depth analysis of literature from a wide range of disciplines, including prehistory, archaeology, Assyriology, Egyptology, and Chinese and Mesoamerican studies, the book reflects the latest and most relevant historical scholarship. Drawing upon the authorâs experience as a practitioner and scholar of records and archives and his extensive knowledge of archival theory and practice, the book embeds its account of the beginnings of recording practices in a conceptual framework largely derived from archival science. Unique both in its breadth of coverage and in its distinctive perspective on early record-making and record-keeping, the book provides the only updated Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1.How Records Began: Representation and Persistence; 2. Marks of Ownership and Sealing; 3: Records, Accounting, and the Emergence of Writing in Ancient Mesopotamia; 4. Records and Writing in Other Early Societies: Egypt, the Aegean, China, and the Americas; 5. Creating and Storing Written Records and Archives: The Proliferation of Records in South-west Asia, Egypt, and Greece; 6. Orality and Literacy: Confidence in Records; 7. Orality, Record-making, and Social Action; 8. Concluding Thoughts: Archival Science and Early Records
£128.25
Taylor & Francis Minds Stayed on Freedom
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Taylor & Francis The Soviet Past in the PostSocialist Present
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Taylor & Francis Ltd New Directions in Queer Oral History
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Oral History and Qualitative Methodologies
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Taylor & Francis Family Oral History Across the World
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Family Memory
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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Taylor & Francis Ltd RecordMaking and RecordKeeping in Early Societies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Family Memory
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Indigenous Oral History Manual
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Taylor & Francis Oral History and Business
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Taylor & Francis The Oral History Reader
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Guide to Interviewing
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Guide to Interviewing
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Taylor & Francis Oral History in Latin America
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Taylor & Francis Oral History in Latin America
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Work and Struggle Voices from US Labor Radicalism
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Taylor & Francis Work and Struggle Voices from US Labor Radicalism
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Taylor & Francis The Ecology of Power
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Cambridge University Press Myth Ritual and the Oral
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Cambridge University Press Commemorating the Dead in Revolutionary France
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Cambridge University Press African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade Volume 2 Essays on Sources and Methods
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Cambridge University Press Myth Ritual and the Oral
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Cambridge University Press Commemorating the Dead in Revolutionary France Revolution and Remembrance 17891799 11 Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories Series Number 11
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Cambridge University Press Memories in the Service of the Hindu Nation
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Cambridge University Press The Making of the Synoptic Gospels
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Londoners
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The University of Chicago Press Last Words of the Executed
Book SynopsisSome beg for forgiveness. Others claim innocence. At least three cheer for their favorite football teams. This book presents an oral history of American capital punishment, as heard from the gallows, the chair, and the gurney. It explores the cultural value of these final statements and asks what we can learn from them.Trade Review"This is a dangerous book. Who knows how we will emerge from the encounter? It makes me want to live, use my energies in soul-sized pursuits like justice, like love. One of the psalms says that God collects our tears in a flask-so too does this collection of last words from human beings before they were killed." -Sister Helen Prejean"
£999.99
WW Norton & Co I Dreamed I Had a Girl in My Pocket
Book SynopsisA remarkable book of photographs accompanied by moving and often disturbing testimonies by the children about their lives within the caste system, their families, fears, futures, and dreams.
£16.14
WW Norton & Co Beyond Glory Medal of Honor Heroes in Their Own
Book SynopsisThis first oral history of living Medal of Honor winners evokes Flags of Our Fathers with stirring accounts of patriotic valor.Trade Review"A book of powerful convictions and human values." -- Michael Pakenham - Baltimore Sun"These recollections are the raw stuff of history. They also provide valuable insight into the military, war and courage under fire." -- John Whiteclay Chambers II - Washington Post Book World
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The University Press of Kentucky Washingtons Iron Butterfly
Book SynopsisOffers a window into the life of Elizabeth ‘Bess’ Clements Abell, former social secretary to President Johnson.Table of ContentsIntroduction The Governor's Daughter The Johnson Orbit A Part-Time Job White House Social Secretary White House Impresario The Lady Bird Special White House Weddings In Time of War and Protest Part of the Family Joan of Art Life After the White House Epilogue The Interviewees Acknowledgements Contributor Biographies Index
£30.40
University of Manitoba Press Elder Brother and the Law of the People
Book SynopsisOffers a detailed analysis of the role of Elder Brother stories in historical and contemporary kinship practices in Cowessess First Nation, located in southeastern Saskatchewan. Robert Innes reveals how these tradition-inspired practices act to undermine legal and scholarly definitions of “Indian” and counter the perception that First Nations people have internalized such classifications.
£28.76
Paragon House Publishers On Listening to Holocaust Survivors
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Michigan State University Press My Eyes Feel They Need to Cry: Stories from the
Book SynopsisAs intimate as they are inspiring, these stories of transformation, drawn from the oral histories of formerly homeless adults, testify to the determination of the human spirit and the healing power of sharing one’s journey. This gripping collection gives voice to the traditionally voiceless, inviting men and women from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds to share their experiences of what it was like to live on the streets, in cars, under bridges, and of how they discovered the inner motivation to change the course of their lives in a positive direction. An important contribution to understanding how destructive patterns can be broken, this book examines some key questions: How do those who have suffered from homelessness and the hardships that accompany it find the inspiration and courage to break the seemingly endless cycle, transform their lives, and become self-sufficient? What emotional price do they pay? When do they realize that enough is enough? How do they learn to trust new people when so many have disappointed them? Homeless people can and do find a way off the streets, as these men and women reveal through their stories, paintings, and poetry.
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University of Massachusetts Press Still They Remember Me: Penobscot Transformer
Book SynopsisNewell Lyon learned the oral tradition from his elders in Maine's Penobscot Nation and was widely considered to be a 'raconteur among the Indians.' The thirteen stories in this new volume were among those that Lyon recounted to anthropologist Frank Speck, who published them in 1918 as Penobscot Transformer Tales. Transcribed for the first time into current Penobscot orthography and with a new English translation, this instructive and entertaining story cycle focuses on the childhood and coming-of-age of Gluskabe, the tribe's culture hero. Learning from his grandmother Woodchuck, Gluskabe applies lessons that help shape the Wabanaki landscape and bring into balance all the forces affecting human life. These tales offer a window into the language and culture of the Penobscot people in the early twentieth century. In 'Still They Remember Me,' stories are presented in the Penobscot language and English side-by-side, coupled with illustrations from members of the tribal community. For the first time, these stories are accessible to a young generation of Penobscot language learners and scholars of Native American literatures at all levels, from grade school to graduate school.Trade Review“This book is an outstanding example of successful, reciprocal collaboration between tribal scholars and academics. These stories are short enough to allow for easy reading and accessible teaching, but they are not simplified versions. They allow readers to see the depth of Penobscot philosophy, ecology, humor, and knowledge. I cannot stress enough how necessary these stories are now, in the twenty-first century.”- Lisa Brooks, author of Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War; “Bombarded by books in English, Wabanaki children and community readers now have access to this important bilingual book that emphasizes language use and acquisition. For most academics and general readers, the bilingual stories can reposition our place of privilege by encouraging us to deeply appreciate the important nuances in Penobscot history.”- Micah A. Pawling, editor of Wabanaki Homeland and the New State of Maine: The 1820 Journal and Plans of Survey of Joseph Treat
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Four Courts Press Ltd Family histories of the Irish Revolution
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Butler Centre for Arkansas Studies A Captive Audience: Voices of Japanese American
Book SynopsisUsing archival primary material such as photographs, yearbooks, artwork, and first-person written accounts, A Captive Audience gives an inside look at the experiences of young people at the Rohwer and Jerome Relocation Centers in Arkansas during the forced incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Many young internees at the camps saw their families lose their homes, businesses, and possessions on the West Coast when the U.S. government rounded up people of Japanese descent after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Yet through all the chaos and heartbreak of the internment experience, young people often brought a unique perspective of hope and resiliency. Intended for young-adult readers, this book explores important dimensions of Arkansas and U.S. history, including human rights and what it means to be an American.
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Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG Josephus Frobenianus: Editions- Und
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