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USEFUL ORAL HISTORY READING
Courtesy of Rob Perks and Al Thomson, The Oral History Reader, Routledge, 2006.
HANDBOOKS AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Hays, P., Speak for Yourself, Namibia, Longman, 1992.
Hutching, M., Talking History: A Short Guide to Oral History, Wellington, New
Zealand, Bridget Williams Books/Historical Branch of the Department of Internal
Affairs, 1993.
Matters, M., Oral History Cataloguing Manual, Chicago, Society of American
Archivists, 1995.
Perks, R., Oral History: An Annotated Bibliography, London, British Library National
Sound Archive, 1990.
Perks, R., Oral History: Talking About the Past, second edition, London, Historical
Association, 1995.
Perks, R. and Thomson, A (eds), The Oral History Reader, second edition, London,
Routledge, 2006.
Ritchie, D.A. Doing Oral History: A Practical Guide, second edition, New York,
Oxford University Press, 2003.
Robertson, B., Oral History Handbook, fourth edition, Adelaide, Oral History
Association of Australia (South Australia Branch), 2000.
Taylor, P., Telling It Like It Was: A Guide to Making Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander History, Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island
Studies, 1996.
Thompson, P, The Voice of the Past: Oral History, third edition, Oxford, Oxford
University Press, 2000.
Wilton, J., Oral History in Australia: A List, Sydney, Oral History Association of
Australia (NSW Branch), 1996.
Yow, V.R. Recording Oral History: A Guide for the Humanities and Social Sciences,
second edition, Walnut Creek, AltaMira Press, 2005.
COLLECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS ON THEORY AND PRACTICE
Armitage, S. H. with Hart, P. and Weatherman, K. (eds), Women's Oral History: The
Frontiers Reader, Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2002.
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Attwood, B. and Magowan, F. (eds), Telling Stories: Indigenous History and Memory
in Australia and New Zealand, Crows Nest, NSW, Allen & Unwin, 2001
Bertaux, D. (ed.), Biography and Society: The Life History Approach in the Social
Sciences, London, Sage, 1981.
Bornat, J., (ed.), Reminiscence Reviewed: Perspectives, Evaluations, Achievements,
Buckingham, Open University Press, 1994.
Bornat, J., Perks, R., Thompson, P. and Walmsley, J (eds), Oral History, Health and
Welfare, London, Routledge, 2000.
Chamberlain, M. and Thompson, P. (eds), Narrative and Genre: Contexts and Types
of Communication, New Brunswick, Transaction Publishers, 2004 (previously
published by Routledge, 1998).
Darian-Smith, K. and Hamilton, P., (eds), Memory and History in Twentieth Century
Australia, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1994.
Dunaway, D. and Baum, W. (eds), Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology,
second edition, London, Altamira Press, 1996.
Evans, G.E., Spoken History, London, Faber, 1987.
Ferreira, M.M and Janaina, A., (eds), Usos & Abusos da Historia Oral, Rio de
Janeiro, Fundacao Getulio Vargas, 1996.
Frisch, M., A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public
History, Albany, SUNY Press, 1990.
Gluck, S.B. and Patai, D. (eds), Women’s Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral
History, London, Routledge, 1991.
Green, A. and Hutching M. (eds), Remembering: Writing Oral History, Auckland,
Auckland University Press, 2004.
Grele, R. (ed.), Envelopes of Sound: The Art of Oral History, second edition, Chicago,
Precedent, 1985.
Huen, P.L.P., Morrison, J.H. and Guan K.C. (eds), Oral History in Southeast Asia:
Theory and Method, Singapore, National Archives of Singapore and Institute of
Southeast Asian Studies, 1998.
Jeffrey, J. and Edwall, G. (eds), Memory and History: Essays on Recalling and
Interpreting Experience, Lanham, MD, University Press of America, 1994.
Lummis, T., Listening to History: The Authenticity of Oral Evidence, London,
Hutchinson, 1987.
McMahan, E., Elite Oral History Discourse: A Study of Cooperation and Coherence,
Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama Press, 1989.
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McMahan, E. and Rogers, K.L. (eds), Interactive Oral History Interviewing,
Hillsdale, New Jersey, Erlbaum, 1994
Meihy, J.C.S.B. (ed.), (Re)introduzindo a história oral no Brasil, São Paulo, Xamã,
1996.
Myers, L.E., Sharpless R and Carlton, T.L., Research Handbook for Oral History,
Lanham, Maryland, Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.
Passerini, L. (ed.), International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories, vol. I,
Memory and Totalitarianism, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992.
Personal Narratives Group (eds), Interpreting Women’s Lives: Feminist Theory and
Personal Narratives, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1989.
Plummer, K., Documents of Life 2: An Invitation to Critical Humanism, London:
Sage, 2001.
Portelli, A., The Battle of Valle Giulia: Oral History and the Art of Dialogue,
University of Wisconsin Press, 1997.
Portelli, A., The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in
Oral History, Albany, SUNY Press, 1991.
Rogers, K.L., Leydesdorff, S. and Dawson, G. (eds), Trauma and Life Stories:
International Perspectives, London, Routledge, 1999.
Samuel, R. and Thompson, P. (eds), The Myths We Live By, London, Routledge, 1990.
Schneider, W., So They Understand: Cultural Issues in Oral History, Logan, Utah
State University Press, 2002.
Schwarzstein, D. (ed.), La Historia Oral, Buenos Aires, Centro Editorial de America
Latina, 1991.
Seldon, A. and Pappworth, J., By Word of Mouth: Elite Oral History, London,
Methuen, 1983.
Stricklin D. and Sharpless, R. (eds), The Past Meets the Present: Essays on Oral
History, Lanham, MD, University Press of America, 1988.
Thompson, P. and Burchardt, N. (eds), Our Common History: The Transformation of
Europe, London, Pluto, 1982.
Tonkin, E., Narrating Our Pasts: The Social Construction of Oral History,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Vansina, J., Oral Tradition: A Study in Historical Methodology, London, Routledge &
Kegan Paul, 1965.
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White, L., Miescher, S.F. and Cohen, D.W. (eds), African Words, African Voices:
Critical Practices in Oral History, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2001.
PERIODICALS
Bios - Zeitschrift fur Biographieforschung, Oral History und Lebensverlaufsanalysen
[Germany], vol. 1 1988-História Oral, [Brazil] vol.1 June 1998-Historia y Fuente Oral, [Spain] no. 1 1989-International Journal of Oral History, vol. 1 1980--1990
International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories, vol. 1 1993--vol. 4 1996
Life Stories/Recits de Vie, [UK/France] no. 1 1985--no. 5 1989
Oral History, [UK] vol. 1 no. 1 1969-Oral History Association of Australia Journal, no. 1 1978-The Oral History Forum (formerly the Canadian Oral History Association Journal),
vol. 1 1975/6-Oral History in New Zealand, vol. 1 1988-Oral History Review, [USA] no. 1 1973-Voces Recobradas, [Argentina] no. 1, 1998-Words and Silences / Palabras y Silencios, [International] no. 1 1997-KEY STUDIES USING ORAL HISTORY
Amin, S., Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura, 1922-1992, Berkeley,
University of California Press, 1995.
Bozzoli, B. with Nkotsoe, M., Women of Phokeng: Consciousness, Life Strategy and
Migrancy in South Africa, 1900-1983, London, James Currey, 1991.
Broadfoot, B., Ten Lost Years 1929-1939: Memories of Canadians Who Survived the
Depression, Toronto, Doubleday, 1973.
Caplan, P., African Voices, African Lives: Personal Narratives from a Swahili
Village, London, Routledge, 1997.
Cruikshank, J., The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon
Territory, Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1998.
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Field, S., Lost Communities, Living Memories: Remembering Forced Removals in
Cape Town, Cape Town, David Philip, 2001.
Fraser, R., Blood of Spain: The Experience of Civil War 1936-9, London, Allen Lane,
1979.
Fyfe, J., The Matriarchs: A Generation of New Zealand Women Talk to Judith Fyfe,
Auckland, Penguin, 1990.
Genovese, E., Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made, New York, Pantheon,
1974.
Glassie, H., Passing the Time in Ballymenone: Folklore and History of an Ulster
Community, Dublin, O’Brien Press, 1982.
Gluck, S.B., Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, the War, and Social Change,
Boston, Twayne, 1987.
Greenspan, H., On Listening to Holocaust Survivors: Recounting and Life History,
Westport, CT, Praeger, 1998.
Haley, A., Roots, London, Hutchinson, 1977.
Hammerton, A.J. and Thomson, A., Ten Pound Poms: Australia's Invisible Migrants,
Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2005.
Hareven, T., Family Time and Industrial Time: The Relationship Between the Family
and Work in a New England Industrial Community, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1982.
Hinton, W., Shenfan: The Continuing Revolution in a Chinese Village, London,
Secker and Warburg, 1983.
Hofmeyer, I., 'We spend our years as a tale that is told': Oral Historical Narrative in
a South African Chiefdom, London, James Currey, 1993.
James, D., Doña María's Story: Life History, Memory and Political Identity, Durham,
NC, Duke University Press, 2000.
Kay, B., (ed.), Odyssey: Voices from Scotland's Recent Past, two volumes, Edinburgh,
Polygon, 1980/1982.
Kennedy, E.L. and Davis, M., Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a
Lesbian Community, New York, Routledge, 1993.
Langer, L., Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory, New Haven, Conn., Yale
University Press, 1991.
Lanzmann, C., Shoah: An Oral History of the Holocaust, New York, Pantheon, 1985.
Lowenstein, W., Weevils in the Flour: An Oral Record of the 1930s Depression in
Australia, Melbourne, Hyland House, 1978.
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Maloof, J., Voices of Resistance: Testimonies of Cuban and Chilean Women,
Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 1999.
Parker, T., The People of Providence: A Housing Estate and Some of its Inhabitants,
Hutchinson, 1983.
Portelli, A., The Order Has been Carried Out: History, Memory, and Meaning of a
Nazi Massacre in Rome, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Passerini, L., Fascism in Popular Memory: The Cultural Experience of the Turin
Working Class, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Roberts, E., A Woman's Place: An Oral History of Working Class Women 1890-1940, Oxford, Blackwell, 1984.
Roseman, M., The Past in Hiding, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 2000.
Rosengarten, T., All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw, New York, Knopf, 1971.
Summerfield, P., Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives, Manchester,
Manchester University Press, 1998.
Terkel, S., Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression, New York,
Pantheon, 1970.
Thomson, A., Anzac Memories: Living With the Legend, Oxford, Oxford University
Press, 1994.
Van Onselen, C., The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African
Sharecropper, 1894-1985, New York, Hill and Wang, 1996.
Wigginton, E., Sometimes a Shining Moment: The Foxfire Experience, Garden City,
N.Y., Doubleday, 1985.
Zhang, X. and Ye, S., Chinese Lives, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1989.