Narrating Our Pasts : The Social Construction of Oral History

Name: Narrating Our Pasts
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521484633
Price: 8300 KES
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ISBN: 9780521484633

by Elizabeth Tonkin

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture

ISBN-10 0521484634

ISBN-13 9780521484633

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Apr 13th, 1995

Print length 192 Pages

Weight 294 grams

Dimensions 15.20 x 22.90 x 1.60 cms

Product Classification: Historiography Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography Social and cultural anthropology Historiography

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Using an interdisciplinary approach, Elizabeth Tonkin investigates the construction and interpretation of oral histories.

In this book, Elizabeth Tonkin, an anthropologist, uses an interdisciplinary approach to investigate the construction and interpretation of oral histories. She argues for a deeper understanding of their oral and social characteristics. Oral accounts of past events are guides to the future, as well as being social activities in which tellers claim authority to speak to particular audiences. Like written history and literature, orality has its shaping genres and aesthetic conventions and, likewise, has to be interpreted through them. Tonkin illustrates her argument from a wide range of examples of memory, narration and oral tradition, including many from Europe and the Americas, and with a particular focus on oral histories from the Jlao Kru of Liberia.

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