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Oral History in a Wounded Country: Interactive Interviewing in South Africa
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Description for Oral History in a Wounded Country: Interactive Interviewing in South Africa
Paperback. Shows 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. Editor(s): Denis, Philippe; Ntsimane, Radikobo. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; HBTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
With the end of apartheid and the exciting, but elusive, advent of a new nation, South Africa is witness to the emergence of a new generation of oral historians whose aim is to develop a broader, more inclusive and culturally sensitive understanding of the South African past. In a country still wounded by a legacy of racial discrimination, the retrieving of oral memories is a task more urgent than ever.""Oral History in a Wounded Country"" shows how the cultural, political, socio-economic and intellectual evolutions that gave birth to South Africa as we know it today affect the oral history process. ... Read more
With the end of apartheid and the exciting, but elusive, advent of a new nation, South Africa is witness to the emergence of a new generation of oral historians whose aim is to develop a broader, more inclusive and culturally sensitive understanding of the South African past. In a country still wounded by a legacy of racial discrimination, the retrieving of oral memories is a task more urgent than ever.""Oral History in a Wounded Country"" shows how the cultural, political, socio-economic and intellectual evolutions that gave birth to South Africa as we know it today affect the oral history process. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University Of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Scottsville, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
ISBN
9781869141479
SKU
V9781869141479
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About
Philippe Denis is professor of History of Christianity and Radikobo Ntsimane is a researcher in Oral History and Religious History, both at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. They are respectively the director and the deputy-director of the Sinomlando Centre for Oral History and Memory Work in Africa at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
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