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What does oral history mean?

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Noun
  1. (historiography) The collection and study of historical information about individuals, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews.
  2. Oral tradition.
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Like many disciplines, history stays alive through novelty spins, Romantic History, psychohistory, the school of the annales and oral history.
There will shortly begin a training programme in oral history interviewing for individuals or groups taking part.
The kinds of interviewing carried out in qualitative research are typical also of life history and oral history interviewing.
The result is an original project that blends anthropological scholarship with oral history.
In fact, says Terkel, his oral history approach has a lot in common with psychotherapy.
Using archive sources and oral history interviews, Professor Chamberlain will unravel their amazing stories.

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