Recording oral history : a guide for the humanities and social sciences / Valerie Raleigh Yow.

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Yow, Valerie Raleigh

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text

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computer

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online resource

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9780759112520
0759112525

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Recording oral history.DDC classification:

907.2 22

LOC classification:

D16.14 .Y68 2005eb

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Contents:

Introduction to the in-depth interview -- Oral history and memory -- Preparation for the interviewing project -- Interviewing techniques -- Legalities and ethics -- Interpersonal relations in the interview -- Varieties of oral history projects: community studies -- Varieties of oral history projects: biography -- Varieties of oral history projects: family research -- Analysis and interpretation -- Conclusion of the project.

Review: "In Recording Oral History, Second Edition, Valerie Raleigh Yow builds on the foundation of her classic text with a fully updated and subtaintially expanded new edition. Yow's updated edition now includes new material on using the Internet, an examination of the interactions between oral history and memory processes, and analysis of testimony and the interpretation of meanings in different contexts. This new volume offers historians, social scientists, and other practitioners engaged in this difficult, rewarding work a scholarly and practical guide to the methods of oral history. It will interest researchers and students in a wide variety of disciplines including history, sociology, anthropology, education, psychology, social work, and ethnographic methods."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"In Recording Oral History, Second Edition, Valerie Raleigh Yow builds on the foundation of her classic text with a fully updated and subtaintially expanded new edition. Yow's updated edition now includes new material on using the Internet, an examination of the interactions between oral history and memory processes, and analysis of testimony and the interpretation of meanings in different contexts. This new volume offers historians, social scientists, and other practitioners engaged in this difficult, rewarding work a scholarly and practical guide to the methods of oral history. It will interest researchers and students in a wide variety of disciplines including history, sociology, anthropology, education, psychology, social work, and ethnographic methods."--Jacket.