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Ronald J. Grele, ed. Envelopes of Sound: Six Practitioners Discuss the Method, Theory, and Practice of Oral History and Oral Testimony. Chicago: Precedent Publishing, Inc., 1975. xii +154 pp. Notes. $7.95 - Paul Thompson. The Voice of the Past: Oral History. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. xi + 257 pp. Index. - Ramon I. Harris, Joseph H. Cash, Herbert T. Hoover, and Stephen R. Ward. The Practice of Oral History: A Handbook. Glen Rock, New Jersey: Microfilming Corporation of America, 1975. x + 98 pp. Appendix. - Willa K. Baum. Transcribing and Editing Oral History. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1975. 127 pp. Bibliography, photo, record. $6.75 paper
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- Oral History: Techniques, New Findings, Critiques
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1 Africa in Time Perspective (New York: Oxford University Press, 1969), p. 38.
2 Independent African (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1958).
3 (Tervuren, Belgium: Musee Royale de l'Afrique Centrale, 1961). The English translation, by H.M. Wright, was published as Oral Tradition (Chicago: Aldine, 1965).
4 Ogot, B. A., History of the Southern Luo, volume one (Nairobi: East African Publishing House, 1967), p. 13.Google Scholar Ogot's experience with such skepticism dated to 1958.
5 Africa in Time Perspective, p. 5.
6 On the process of integrating material from a variety of historical records, see Melvin E. Page, “Malawians and the Great War: African Memories and European Records,” paper presented at the joint annual meeting of the African Studies Association and the Latin American Studies Association, Houston, November 2-5, 1977.