Voorbeelden van oral history

• A second key element of oral history consists in its unique nature as a means to understand memory.

• Oral history is now a well-established part of historical methodology, which has moved into the mainstream from its radical origins of the 1960s and 1970s.

• Especially in more marginal settings the significance of oral history, as it were, may be drastically greater than within the mainstream.

• However, if memorywork is the central focus for the oral history interviewer, then the relationship between interviewer and interviewee needs to be unpacked more carefully.

• Oral history would be a key way of examining some of these issues in more detail and in a more multi-layered fashion.

• It is within this tradition that oral history developed in the late 1960s.

• This later study, thirty-seven years on, considers the nature of change over that period, and uses similar methods of oral history to do so.

• He breaks from the more romantic uses of oral history, but still stresses the need for empirical rigour.

• Similarly, the researchers draw upon diverse biographical approaches, such as oral history and narrative analysis.

• The fixed perspective approach can be greatly enhanced by the inclusion of a narrative, poetic or oral history component.

• The status of oral history as a shared process between researcher and informant is also considered.

• The scope and style of this book render it an invaluable resource for anyone with even a cursory interest in oral history.

• At the time of her oral history, she was a sculptor.

• Oral history practice has produced some useful pointers to how such training might be focused.

• It is a compilation of oral history rather than a biography.