“No One Wants the Maintenance Crew Named after Them,” or Preparing Material to Deposit in the Digital Age by Troy Reeves Most folks love conducting interviews. It gives them an opportunity to meet with interesting people and hear interesting stories. They get to ask good questions and better follow-up questions. They get these men and …
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On the Differences between Folklore Fieldwork and Oral History
On the Differences between Folklore Fieldwork and Oral History by Tim Lloyd The ethnographic research activities of folklorists–generally called “fieldwork”–have a number of important differences from, as well as similarities to, the research activities of oral historians–generally called “interviewing”. In general, we might say that folklorists are most fundamentally interested in those occasions, practices, and …
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Project Planning and Management
Project Planning and Management by Marsha MacDowell Why collect oral histories and expressions? Histories and understandings of people, places, things, and events are constructed and reconstructed based on information—both tangible and intangible—that is available to those writing, telling, and interpreting the histories and knowledge. Some histories and cultural knowledge can be deduced only by examining …
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Designing an Oral History Project
Designing an Oral History Project: Initial Questions to Ask Yourself by Doug Boyd It is a great feeling when you commit yourself, your organization or your community to an oral history project. It is a great privilege to record someone’s life story and a great responsibility to care for that story in a preservation environment. …
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Oral History in the Digital Age
Welcome to Oral History in the Digital Age where we will connect you to the latest information on digital technologies pertaining to all phases of the oral history process. There are two primary locations for the OHDA Project online, the primary site and the OHDA WIKI. You are currently on the primary site where you …
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