Anmerkung: | "Documentation, representation, presentation, and interpretation, illustrated with stories from South Africa, Alaska, and the Yukon." Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-190) and index Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2003 Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 |
Inhalt: | How Stories Work -- Introduction -- A Career Full of Stories -- What's in a Story -- Sorting Out Oral Tradition and Oral History -- Types of Stories -- Personal Narratives: Shared One to Another -- Gathering to Tell Stories: The Neglected Genre in Oral History -- In Search of the Story: Interviewers and Their Narrators -- Life Histories: The Constructed Genre -- Issues Raised by Stories -- The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth -- Issues of Representation -- Intellectual Property Rights and the Public: Unfinished Business -- The Public Record Illuminated by numerous stories collected from Alaska, the Yukon, and South Africa and further enlivened by the author's accessible style and experiences as a longtime oral historian and archivist, So They Understand is a comprehensive study of the special challenges and concerns involved in documenting, representing, preserving, and interpreting oral narratives |
