Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Note on orthography
- Introduction
- 1 Jlao: an introductory case study
- 2 The teller of the tale: authors and their authorisations
- 3 Structuring an account: the work of genre
- 4 Temporality: narrators and their times
- 5 Subjective or objective? Debates on the nature of oral history
- 6 Memory makes us, we make memory
- 7 Truthfulness, history and identity
- Notes
- Bibliography
- General index
- Index of names
- Plate section
Acknowledgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Note on orthography
- Introduction
- 1 Jlao: an introductory case study
- 2 The teller of the tale: authors and their authorisations
- 3 Structuring an account: the work of genre
- 4 Temporality: narrators and their times
- 5 Subjective or objective? Debates on the nature of oral history
- 6 Memory makes us, we make memory
- 7 Truthfulness, history and identity
- Notes
- Bibliography
- General index
- Index of names
- Plate section
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Narrating our PastsThe Social Construction of Oral History, pp. xiiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992