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 as literary criticism, linguistics, history, psychology, and communication and cultural studies.
Narrating our Pasts: The Social Construction of Oral History (Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture)
Brand: Cambridge University Press
$80.31 - $94.31
- UPC:
- 9780521484633
- Maximum Purchase:
- 2 units
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 1995-06-30
- Author:
- Elizabeth Tonkin
- Language:
- english
- Edition:
- Reprint