Description: This study looks at how oral histories are constructed and how they should be interpreted, and argues for a deeper understanding of their oral and social characteristics. Oral accounts of past events are also 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. The argument 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 Elizabeth Tonkin has carried out extensive research. Tonkin also draws on and integrates the insights of a range of other disciplines, such as literary criticism, linguistics, history, psychology, and communication and cultural studies.
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EAN: 9780521484633
UPC: 9780521484633
ISBN: 9780521484633
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Book Title: Narrating our Pasts: The Social Construction of Or
Item Length: 22.8 cm
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Name: Narrating Our Pasts: the Social Construction of Oral History
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Item Height: 228 mm
Subject: Anthropology, History
Publication Year: 1995
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 320 g
Author: Elizabeth Tonkin
Item Width: 153 mm
Series: Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture
Format: Paperback
