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
Frontmatter
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
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- Narrating our PastsThe Social Construction of Oral History, pp. i - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992