AltaMira Press
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978-0-7591-1090-8 • Hardback • October 2007 • $114.00 • (£88.00)
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Thomas L. Charlton is Professor of History at Baylor University. He is Director of The Texas Collection library/archival center and author of Oral History for Texans (1981, 1985). Rebecca Sharpless is assistant professor in the Department of History at Texas Christian University. Lois E. Myers is Associate Director of the Institute for Oral History at Baylor University.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 I. Theories
Chapter 3 1. The History of Oral History
Chapter 4 2. Memory Theory: Personal and Social
Chapter 5 3. Aging, the Life Course, and Oral History: African American Narratives of Struggle, Social Change, and Decline
Chapter 6 4. A Conversation Analytic Approach to Oral History Interviewing
Chapter 7 5. Women's Oral History: Is It So Special?
Chapter 8 6. Narrative Theory
Part 9 II. Applications
Chapter 10 7. Publishing Oral History: Oral Exchange and Print Culture
Chapter 11 8. Biography and Oral History
Chapter 12 9. Fractious Action: Oral History-Based Performance
Chapter 13 10. Oral History in Sound and Moving Image Documentaries
This handbook brings together some of the ablest oral historians to offer thoughtful, thorough, and timely assessments of their field. It belongs on the shelf of anyone seriously interested in the theory and practice of oral history.
— Donald A. Ritchie, associate historian, U.S. Senate Historical Office; author of Doing Oral History
This handbook is an inspired combination of the practical and the theoretical. An essential companion for anyone interested in the multifarious, cross-disciplinary research movement that has come to be known as 'oral history.'
— Jacquelyn Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill