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Klappentext Oral history is inherently about memory, and when oral history interviews are used in public, they invariably both reflect and shape public memories of the past.a "Oral History and Public Memories" is the only book that explores this relationship, in fourteen case studies of oral history's use in a variety of venues and media around the world.a Readers will learn, for example, of oral history based efforts to reclaim community memory in post-apartheid Cape Town, South Africa; of the role of personal testimony in changing public understanding of Japanese American history in the American West; of oral history's value in mapping heritage sites important to Australia's Aboriginal population; and of the way an oral history project with homeless people in Cleveland, Ohio became a tool for popular education.a Taken together, these original essays link the well established practice of oral history to the burgeoning field of memory studies. " Zusammenfassung Explores the relationship between the well-established practice of oral history and the burgeoning field of memory studies. This title explains the processes by which oral histories move beyond interviews with individual people to become articulated memories shared by others. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Section I: Creating Heritage 1: Parks Canada! the Commemoration of Canada! and Northern Aboriginal Oral History / David Neufeld; 2: History from Above: The Use of Oral History in Shaping Collective Memory in Singapore / Kevin Blackburn; 3: Mapping Memories: Oral History for Aboriginal Cultural Heritage in New South Wales! Australia / Maria Nugent; 4: Moving beyond the Walls: The Oral History of the Ottoman Fortress Villages of Seddulbahir and Kumkale / Isil Cerem Cenker and Lucienne Thys-Senocak; 5: Private Memory in a Public Space: Oral History and Museums / Selma Thomas Section II: Recreating Identity and Community 6: Imagining Communities: Memory! Loss! and Resilience in Post-Apartheid Cape Town / Sean Field; 7: Contested Places in Public Memory: Reflections on Personal Testimony and Oral History in Japanese American Heritage / Gail Lee Dubrow; 8: "Scars in the Ground": Kauri Gum Stories / Senka Bouic-Vrbancic; 9: Memory and Mourning: Living Oral History with Queer Latinos in San Francisco / Horacio N. Roque Ramirez; 10: Interfaced Memory: Black World War II Ex-GIs and Veterans Reunions of the late Twentieth Century / Robert Jefferson Section III: Making Change 11: Public Memory as Arena of Contested Meanings: A Student Project on Migration / Riki Van Boeschoten; 12: Countering Corporate Narratives from the Streets: The Cleveland Homeless Oral History Project / Daniel Kerr; 13: Public Memory! Gender! and National Identity in Post-War Kosovo: The Albanian Community / Silvia Salvatici; 14: Seeing the Past! Visions of the Future: Memory Workshops with Internally Displaced Persons in Colombia / Pilar Riano-Alcala Notes; Contributors ...
