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Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 55.95The study of oral traditions and verbal arts leads into an area of human culture to which anthropologists are increasingly turning their attention. Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts provides up-to-date guidance on how to approach the study of oral form and their performances, treating both the practicalities of fieldwork and the methods by which... more...
Oral History, Health and Welfare
Taylor and Francis 1999; US$ 146.00Oral History, Health and Welfare discusses the significance of oral history to the history of the development of health and welfare provisions. It includes discussion on: * the end of the workhouse * professional education and training of midwives * HIV and Aids * birth control * the role of the community pharmacist * pioneers of geriatric... more...
To Wear the Dust of War
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 39.00Like many European Jews, Sam Iwry began his life in Poland, but at the age of ten fled with his family to Russia before World War I. At age 29, Iwry was forced to flee again - this time from the Soviets - and ended up in Shanghai, China, joining 20,000 Jewish refugees who were there. The story of the Diaspora caused by the Holocaust is well-known,... more...
Never Will We Forget: Oral Histories of World War II
Greenwood Publishing Group 2008; US$ 45.00The personal stories of the men and women who fought and lived the Second World War-in battle, and on the home front. more...
Mules and Men
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 11.99Mules and Men is a treasury of black America's folklore as collected by a famous storyteller and anthropologist who grew up hearing the songs and sermons, sayings and tall tales that have formed an oral history of the South since the time of slavery. Returning to her hometown of Eatonville, Florida, to gather material, Zora Neale Hurston recalls... more...
China Witness
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 16.95China Witness is a remarkable work of oral history that lets us see the cultural upheavals of the past century through the eyes of the Chinese who lived through them. Xinran, acclaimed author of The Good Women of China , traveled across China seeking out the nation?s grandparents and great-grandparents, the men and women who experienced firsthand... more...
Our Land Before We Die
Penguin Group US 2005; US$ 16.95In Our Land Before We Die , Jeff Guinn traces the little-known history of the runaway slaves who fled to the Florida Everglades to live alongside the Seminole Indians. Deeply rooted in tribal oral history, and based on extensive interviews with descendants, this book describes the incredible circumstances of a people who sought shelter in the shadow... more...
Our Stories, Our Lives
The Policy Press 2009; US$ 15.00This book presents the stories of 20 women from Bradford between the ages of 14 and 80, from their own perspectives. It offers an intricate mosaic of the experiences, views and hopes of these women and in so doing emphasises the power of people's lives to aid deeper debate and understanding and gives voice to an important and often marginalised... more...
Envelopes of Sound
ABC-CLIO 1991; US$ 36.95What is it that oral historians do? Prior to the publication of Envelopes of Sound oral history was regarded as an archival practice and interviews were considered the repositories of data. Envelopes shows that the interview is a series of dialectical relationships embedded in language, social practice, and historical imagination. It merges theory... more...
Mom
Penguin Group US 2010; US$ 21.95"[ Mom ] bursts with stories that are unvarnished, sad, funny, wise, and most of all, very real." - Chicago Tribune (Editor's Choice) Featuring StoryCorps' most revealing stories on the subject, Mom looks across a diversity of experience to offer an entirely original portrait of motherhood. In conversations between parents and children,... more...









