Narrating Our Pasts: The Social Construction of Oral History
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture Series)
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Elizabeth Tonkin looks at how oral histories are constructed and how they should be interpreted. Her study is illustrated through 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, with whom the author has carried out extensive research. She also draws on and integrates the insights of a range of disciplines, such...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521484634
ISBN13:9780521484633
Release Date:June 1995
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.64 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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