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Oral History and Public Memories
Paula Hamilton
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Description for Oral History and Public Memories
Paperback. Explores the relationship between the well-established practice of oral history and the burgeoning field of memory studies. This work explains the processes by which oral histories move beyond interviews with individual people to become articulated memories shared by others. Editor(s): Hamilton, Paula; Shopes, Linda. Series: Critical Perspectives on the Past Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, 2 maps, 15 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
Oral history is inherently about memory, and when oral history interviews are used \u0022in public,\u0022 they invariably both reflect and shape public memories of the past. Oral History and Public Memories is the only book that explores this relationship, in fourteen case studies of oral history's use in a variety of venues and media around the world. Readers will learn, for example, of oral history based efforts to reclaim community memory in post-apartheid Cape Town, South Africa; of the role of personal testimony in changing public understanding of Japanese American history in the American West; of oral history's ... Read more
Oral history is inherently about memory, and when oral history interviews are used \u0022in public,\u0022 they invariably both reflect and shape public memories of the past. Oral History and Public Memories is the only book that explores this relationship, in fourteen case studies of oral history's use in a variety of venues and media around the world. Readers will learn, for example, of oral history based efforts to reclaim community memory in post-apartheid Cape Town, South Africa; of the role of personal testimony in changing public understanding of Japanese American history in the American West; of oral history's ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Critical Perspectives on the Past Series
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781592131419
SKU
V9781592131419
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About Paula Hamilton
Paula Hamilton is Associate Professor in History at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia. She is co-director of the Australian Centre for Public History and co-editor of Public History Review. Linda Shopes is a freelance editor and consultant and formerly a historian at the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission. She is Past President of the U.S. Oral History ... Read more
Reviews for Oral History and Public Memories
"A fine, well-conceived book, refreshingly direct and engaged. A collection of sparkling essays that show oral history at work in a diverse array of contexts, levels, and engagements. They demonstrate powerfully its consequentiality for thinking clearly about meaningful intersections in public space, public life, community sensibility, and mobilized memory. This is no small accomplishment." -Michael Frisch, University at Buffalo, The ... Read more