Narrating our Pasts : The Social Construction of Oral History
Book Details
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:
HistoriographySocial & cultural anthropology, ethnography
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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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