Carolyn Podruchny

Oral History Seminar
Instructor: Carolyn Podruchny

Working Bibliography


Oral History Anthologies

Benmayor, Rina and Andor Skotnes, eds. Migration and Identity. Volume 3, International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories. Oxford University Press, 1994.

Dunaway, David K. and Willa K. Baum, eds.  Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology. 2nd Edition. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, 1996.

Finkelstein, Barbara, Oral History: A Reader.

Grele, Ronald J. ed. Envelopes of Sound: The Art of Oral History, 2nd edition. New York: Praege, 1991.

Leydesdorff and Paul Thompson, eds. Gender and Memory. Volume 4, International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories. Oxford University Press, 1996.

Passerini, Luisa, ed. Memory and Totalitarianism. Volume 1, International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories. Oxford University Press, 1992.

Perks, Robert and Alistair Thomson, eds. The Oral History Reader.  New York: Routledge, 1998.


Theory

Cruikshank, Julie. The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1998.

Cohen, David William. 1989. `The Undefining of Oral Tradition.' Ethnohistory, 36 (1): 9-18.

Mignolo, Walter D. Mignolo. "Editor's Introduction." Poetics Today: International Journal for Theory and Analysis of Literature and Communication (Winter 1994), 15(4):507, 514, 521.

Ong, Walter J. Orality and literacy : the technologizing of the word. London ; New York: Methuen, 1982.

Ong, Walter J. Interfaces of the Word: Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977.

Portelli, Alessandro. “The Peculiarities of Oral History” History Workshop 12 (1981): 96-107.

Portelli, “Oral History as Genre.” In Narrative and Genre. Edited by Mary Chamberlain and Paul Thompson. London: Routledge, 1998.

Portelli, Alessandro, The Battle of Valle Giulia: Oral History and the Art of Dialogue. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997.

Shiffrin, D.  Approaches to Discourse. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.

Thompson, Paul. The Voice of the Past: Oral History. Oxford University Press, 2000.

Tonkin, Elizabeth. Narrating Our Pasts: The Social Construction of Oral History. Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Vansina, Jan. Oral Tradition as History. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985.

Vansina, Jan. 1965. Oral Tradition: A Study in Historical Method, translated by H.M. Wright. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. First published in Belgium in 1961.


Indigenous Methodologies and Ethics

Doxtater, Deborah. “Inclusive and Exclusive Perceptions of Difference: Native and Euro-Based Concepts of Time, History, and Change.” In Decentring the Renaissance: Canada and Europe in Mulitdisciplinary Perspective, 1500-1700, ed. by Germaine Warkentin and Carolyn Podruchny. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001.

Foster, Michael K. “On Who Spoke First at Iroquois-White Councils: An Exercise in the Method of Upstreaming.” In Extending the Rafters: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Iroquoian Studies, edited by Michael K. Foster, Jack Campisi and Marianne Mithun, 183-207. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1984.

Fry, Amelia.  “Reflection on Ethics.” In Dunaway, David K.  and Willa K. Baum, eds.  Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology. 2nd Edition, 161-72. Walnut Cree: AltaMira Press, 1996.

Hernádez-Ávila, Inés. “Mediations of the Spirit: Native American Religious Traditions and the Ethics of Representation.” American Indian Quarterly 20:3 (1996), 329-352.

Kvale, Steinar.  InterViews. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1996. (see esp. 109- 123).

Michell, Herman.  "Pakitinâsowin: Tobacco Offerings in Exchange for Stories and the Ethic of Reciprocity in First Nations Research." 1999. http://www.sifc.edu/Indian%20Studies/IndigenousThought/fall99/tobacco.htm

Morantz, Toby, “Plunder or Harmony? On Merging European and Native Views of Early Contact.” In Decentring the Renaissance: Canada and Europe in Mulitdisciplinary Perspective, 1500-1700, ed. by Germaine Warkentin and Carolyn Podruchny. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001.

Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing Methodlogies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. London: Zed Books, 1999.

Stoeltje, Beverly, Christie L. Fox and Stephen Olbrys. “The Self in ‘Fieldwork’ A Methodological Concern.” Journal  of American Folklore 112:444 (1999), 158-182.

Wallace, Michael.  “The Politics of Public History” in Jo Blatti, ed. Past Meets Present: Essays about Historical  Interpretation and Public Audiences, 37-61. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987.

Widdershoven, Guy A. M. and Smits, Marie-Josée. “Ethics and  Narratives.” In Josselson, Ruthellen, ed.  The Narrative Study of Lives. (1996), 275-288.



Theories of Orality – The Case of Native America

Boone, Elizabeth Hill, and Walter D. Mignolo, eds. Writing without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994.

Cruikshank, Julie.  “Discovery of Gold on the Klondike: Perspectives from Oral Tradition.” In Jennifer S. H. Brown and Elizabeth Vibert, eds. Reading Beyond Words: Contexts for Native History. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1996.

Sarris, Greg. Keeping Slug Woman Alive: A Holistic Approach to American Indian Texts. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Stevenson, Winona. "Indigenous Voices, Indigenous Histories.  Part One: The Othering of Indigenous History." Saskatchewan History (Fall 1998): 24-27.

Turner, Terence. “History, Myth, and Social Consciousness among the Kayapó of Central Brazil.” Rethinking History and Myth: Indigenous South American Perspectives on the Past, edited by Jonathan Hill, 195-213. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1988.

Turner, Terence. “Commentary: Ethno-Ethnohistory: Myth and History in Native South American Representations of Contact with Western Society.” Rethinking History and Myth: Indigenous South American Perspectives on the Past, edited by Jonathan Hill, 235-81. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1988.

Warkentin, Germaine. “In Search of "The Word of the Other": Aboriginal Sign Systems and the History of the Book in Canada.” Book History II (1999). http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/bh/toc/bh2.1.html


Socio-linguistics

Bauman, Richard and Joel Sherzer, eds. Explorations in  the Ethnography of Speaking. New York: Cambridge University  Press, 1989. 

Bernstein, Basil.  "A Sociolinguistic Approach to  Socialization; With Some Reference to Educability" in John J. Grumperz and Del Hymes Directions in Socio-linguistics, 465-97. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1986.

Crane, Julia G. and Michael V. Angrosino. Field Projects in Anthropology: A Student Handbook 2nd Edition, 53-63. Prospect Heights, Ill: Waveland Press, 1984.

Basso, Keith.  “The Ethnology of Writing” in R. Bauman and J. Sherzer (eds). Explorations in the Ethnology of Speaking, 423-32. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1974.

Bloomfield, Leonard.  Language. New York: Holt, Rinehalt and Winston, 1933.

Carey, James W.  Communication as Culture.  Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1988.

Fishman, J. A.  “The Sociology of Language” in Pier  Paolo Giglioli Language and Social Context. New York: Penguin, 1976.

Goffman, Erving.  Forms of Talk.  Philadelphia: University of Pennslyvania Press, 1959.

Gumperz, John J. and Del Hymes. Directions in Socio- Linguistics. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1986.

Habermas, Jürgen.  The Theory of Communication Action.  Vols. 1, 2. Boston: Beacon Press, 1987.

Hoggart, Richard.  The Uses of Literacy.  London: Esssential Books, 1957.

Lakoff, George.  Women, Fire and other Dangerous Things:  What Categories Reveal about the Mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Murray, D.A. “The Context of Oral and Written Language: A Framework for Mode and Medium Switching.” Language in Society 17 (1988): 351-373.

Philips, S. “Literacy as a Mode of Communication on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation” in Lennenberg E.H. and E. Lennenberd, eds.  Foundations of Language Development Vol. II, 367-82. New York: Academic Press, 1974.

Prucha, J. “Using Language: A Sociological Approach” in  B.  Bain, ed. In The Sociogenesis of Language and Human Conduct. (1983): 287-295.

Sapir, Edward. Language. New York: Henry Holt, 1921.

Schieffelin, Bambi B. “Teasing and shaming in Kaluli children’s interactions” in Bambi B. Schieffelin and Elinor Ochs, 165-81. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. 

Spielmann, Roger.  You're So Fat!: Exploring Ojibwe  Discourse. Toronto: University of Toronto, 1998.



Oral History and Memory

Carruthers, Mary. Book of Memory. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990.

Carruthers, Mary. The Craft of Thought.

Carruthers, Mary, ed. Medieval Craft of Memory (an anthology).

Le Goff, Jacques.  History and Memory. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992.

Spence, Jonathon D. The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci. New York: Columbia Univeristy Press, 1976.

Rossi, Paolo. Clavis universalis. Milan, 1960. English title: Logic and the Art of Memory: The Quest for a Universal Language. Translated with an introduction by Stephen Clucas.
Published: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Rossi, Paolo. "La costruzione delle immagini nei trattati di memoria artificiale del Rinascimento." In Umanesimo e Simbolismo, edited by E. Castelli, 161-78. Padua, 1958.

Rossi, Paolo. "Immagini e memoria locale nei secoli XIV e XV." Rivista critica de historia della filosofia Facs. II (1958): 149-91.

Rossi, Paolo. "The Legacy of Ramon Lull in Sixteenth Century Thought." Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies (Warburg Inst.) 5 (1961): ca. 1990.

Rossi, Paolo. Il passato, la memoria, l'oblio : sei saggi di storia delle idee. Series: Intersezioni. 92 Published: Bologna : Il Mulino, c1991.

Volkmann, Ludwig. "Ars memorativa." Jahrbuch der Kusnthistorishen Sammlungen in Wien N. F. Sonderheft 30 (1929): 111-203.

Yates, Frances A. The Art of Memory. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1966.

 


Situating Narratives

Arnold, A. James and Derek Walcott, eds. Monsters, Tricksters and Sacred Cows: Animal Tales and American Identities. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1996.

Basso, Keith. Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996.

Chase, Susan E. “Personal Vulnerability and Interpretative Authority in Narrative Research.” in Josselson, Ruthellen, ed., 45-59.  The Narrative Study of Lives. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1996.

Denzin, Norman. K.  “On Interpreting and Interpretation.” American Journal of Sociology  89 (1983):14 26-33.

Fish, Stanely. Is there a Text in this Class: The Authority of Interpretative Communities.  Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1981.

Ginzburg, Carlo. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller. Trans. by John and Anne Tedeschi. Johns Hopkins Press, 1980.

Josselson, Ruthellen and Amia Lieblich, eds. The Narrative Study of Lives Vols. 1, 2 Newbury Park: Sage, 1993, 1994, next edition, 1996.

Patai, Daphne and Sherna B. Gluck, eds. Women’s Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History. Routledge, 1991.

Portelli, Alessandro. The Death of Luigi Trastulli

White, Richard. Remembering Ahanagram: A History of Stories. New York: Hill and Wang.


Indigenous Oral Traditions and Oral Histories

Cruikshank, Julie, in collaboration with Angela Smith, Kitty Smith, and Annie Ned. Life Lived Like a Story. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1992.

Dauenhauer, Nora Marks and Richard Dauenhauer. Haa Kusteeyi: Our Culture: Tlingit Life Stories. 1994.

Gibson, John Arthur. Concerning the League: The Iroquois Tradition in Onondaga, edited by Hanni Woodbury in collaboration with Reg Henry and Harry Webster, on the basis of A.A. Goldenweiser's Manuscript. Winnipeg: Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics, Memoir 9, 1992.

Hewitt, J. N. B. “Iroquois Cosmology, Second Part.” Forty Third Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1925-1926. Washington, DC: Government Printing, 1928.

Hewitt, J. N. B., ed.  “Seneca Fiction, Legends and Myths collected by Jeremiah Curtin and J.N.B. Hewitt.” In Thirty Second Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology 1910 1911. Washington, DC: Government Printing, 1918.

Jones, William. Ojibwa Texts. Ed. by Truman Michelson, 2 volumes. Publications of the American Ethnological Society, volume vii, part i, Ed. by Franz Boas. Leyden: E.J. Brill and New York: G.E. Stechert & Co., 1917.

Kan, Sergei. “Shamanism and Christianity: Modern Tlingit Elders Look at the Past.” Ethnohistory 38: 4 (fall 1991), 363-87.

Kegg, Maude. Portage Lake: Memories of an Ojibwa Childhood. 1991. (edited and transcribed by John Nichols).

La Grand, James. “Whose Voices Count? Oral Sources and 20th Century American Indian History.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 21: 1 (1997), 73-105.

Laidlaw, Col. George E. ed. Ojibwa Myths and Tales, Reprinted from the Archaeological Report, 1918.

Lomawaima, K. Tsianina. They Called it Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School. 1994.

Morantz, Toby. “Oral and Recorded History in James Bay.” In Papers of the Fifteenth Algonquian Conference, edited by William Cowan, 171-91. Ottawa: Carleton University, 1984.

Netting, Robert. “Clashing Cultures, Clashing Symbols: Histories and Meaning of the Latok War.” Ethnohistory 34: 4 (Fall 1987), 352-80.

Powers, Marla N. Oglala Women: Myth, Ritual and Reality. 1986.

Richling, Barnett. “Very Serious Reflections: Inuit Dreams About Salvation and Loss in 18th Century Labrador.” Ethnohistory 36: 2 (Spring 1989), 148-69.

Ridington, Robin.. Trail to Heaven: Knowledge and Narrative in a Northern Native Community. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1988.

Rose, Ariel. “Pocomoke: A Study in Remembering and Forgetting.” Ethnohistory 45: 3 (Summer 1998), 543-73.

Strong, Pauline Turner. “New Approches to American Indian Texts: The Personal Narrative.” Journal of American Ethnic History 17: 3 (1998), 99-.

Treuer, Antoine, ed. Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales & Oral Histories: A Bilingual Anthology. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 2001.

Underhill, Ruth M. Papago Woman. 1979.

Vincent, Sylvie. “La tradition orale montagnaise. Comment l'interroger?” Cahiers de Clio. Brussels, 1981.

Vizenor, Gerald. The Everlasting Sky: Voices of the Anishinabe People.



European / American Folklore

Barbeau, C. Marius, “The Field of European Folk-Lore in America.” The Journal of American Folk-Lore 32: 124 (April – June 1919), 185-97.

Barbeau, C. Marius. Jongleur Songs of Old Quebec. Trans. by Sir Harold Boulton and Sir Ernest MacMillan. Toronto: They Ryerson Press and New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1962.

Bolduc, Evelyn. “Contes Populaires Canadiens (troisième série).” Journal of American Folk-Lore 32: 123 (January – March 1919), 90-167.

Darnton, Robert. “Peasants Tell Tales: The Meaning of Mother Goose.” In The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History. Basic Books, 1984.

Fowke, Edith. Folktales of French Canada. Toronto: NC Press, 1979.

Massicotte, E. - Z. and C. Marius Barbeau. “Chantes Populaire du Canada.” The Journal of American Folk-Lore 32: 123 (January – March 1919), 1-89

White, Bruce M. “The Fear of Pillaging: Economic Folktales of the Great Lakes Fur Trade." In The Fur Trade Revisited: Selected Papers of the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference, Mackinac Island, Michigan, 1991. Ed. by Jennifer S.H. Brown, W.J. Eccles, and Donald P. Heldman, 199-216. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 1994.




Native American and European Contact in Oral Tradition and History

Julien, Catherine. Reading Inca History. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000.

McClellan, Catharine. “Indian Stories About the First Whites in Northwestern America.” In Ethnohistory in Southwestern Alaska and Southern Yukon: Method and Content, edited by Margaret Lantis, 103-33. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1970.

Ramos, Alcida. “Indian Voices: Contact Experienced and Expressed.” Rethinking History and Myth: Indigenous South American Perspectives on the Past, edited by Jonathan Hill, 214-34. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1988.

Vincent, Sylvie. “L'arrivée des chercheurs de terres. Récits et dires des Montagnais de la Moyenne et de la Basse Côte-Nord.” Recherches amérindiennes au Québec, 22: 2-3 (1992), 19-29.

Wiget, Andrew. “Truth and the Hopi: An Historiographical Study of Documented Oral Traditions Concerning the Coming of the Spaniards.” Ethnohistory 29: 3 (1982), 181-99.

Wogan, Peter. “Perceptions of European Literacy in Early Contact Situations.” Ethnohistory 41: 3 (1994),  407-29.



Cree Oral History

Ahenakew, Alice. âh-âyîtaw isi ê-kî-kiskêyihtahkik maskihkiy, They Knew Both Sides of Medicine: Cree Tales of Curing and Cursing Told by Alice Ahenakew. Ed. and trans. by H. C. Wolfart and Freda Ahenakew. Winnipeg: Publications of the Algonquian Text Society, University of Manitoba Press, 2000.

Ahenakew, Freda and H. C. Wolfart, eds. Kôhkominawak Otâcimowiniwâwa, Our Grandmothers’ Lives as Told in Their Own Words. Saskatoon: Fifth House Publishers, 1992.

Ahenakew, Freda and H. C. Wolfart.  kwayask ê-kî-pê-kiskinowâpahtihicik: their example showed me the way. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1997.

Ahenakew, Freda and H. C. Wolfart. kinêhiyâwininaw nêhiyawêwin: The Cree Language is Our Identity. Winnipeg: The University of Manitoba Press, 1993.

Bird, Louis and George Fulford, “Making the Past Come Alive: The Omushkegowak Oral History Project.” In Pushing the Margins: Native and Northern Studies. Ed. by Jill Oakes et. al., 270-89. Winnipeg: Native Studies Press, University of Manitoba, 2001.

Ellis, C. Douglas, ed. âtalôhkâna nêsta tipâcimôwina, Cree Legends and Narratives from the West Coast of James Bay. Winnipeg: Publications of the Algonquian Text Society, University of Manitoba Press, 1995.

McLeod, Neal.  "Nêhiyâwin (Creeness): The Idea of Cree     Narrative History." Te Pouhere Korero Journal: Maori History Maori People 1:1 (1999), 57-75.

McLeod, Neal. "Plains Cree Identity: Ambiguous Genealogies and Narrative Irony" Canadian Journal of Natives Studies 20: 2 (2000): 437-454.

McLeod, Neal. "Cree Narratives of Change" The Journal of Indigenous Thought (Winter 2001) http://www.sifc.edu/Indian%20Studies/IndigenousThought/winter2001/narratives.html

McLeod, Neal. “Rethinking Treaty Six in the Spirit of Mistahi Maskwa” Canadian Journal of Native Studies 19: 1 (1999): 69-89.

Preston, Richard J. Cree Narrative: Expressing the Personal Meanings of Events. National Museum of Man Mercury Series. Ethnology Service Paper 30. Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, 1975.




Family Oral History

Bertaux, Daniel and Paul Thompson, eds. Between Generations: Family Models, Myths and Memories: International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories, 1993.

Boyer, Ruth McDonald and Narcissus Duffy Gayton. Apache Mothers and Daughters. 1992.

Hareven, Tamara. “The Search for Generational Memory” in Oral History (1996): 241-256.

Mann, Chris. “Family Fables.” In Narrative and Genre. Edited by Mary Chamberlain and Paul Thompson. London: Routledge, 1998.

McLeod, Neal. "Coming Home Through Stories." International Journal of Canadian Studies Special Issue: Diaspora and Exile (Fall 1998): 51-66.

Roy, Willis.  “On Being one’s own Grandpa: the Contemporary Ancestor Revisited.” Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 17:3 (1986),  245-253.

Shopes, Linda “Using Oral History for a Family History Project” in Dunaway, David K. and Willa K. Baum, 231-40.  Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology. 2nd Edition (Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, 1996.

Zeitlin, Steven J. et al. A Celebration of American Family Folklore: Tales and Traditions from the Smithsonian Collection. New York: Pantheon Books, 1982.



Native American Oral Autobiographies

Bighorse, Tiana.  Bighorse the Warrior.

Dog, Mary Crow. Lakota Woman. 1990.

Dyk, Walter.  Son of Old Man Hat: A Navaho Autobiography (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1967.

Edmunds, R. David. The Shawnee Prophet. 1983.

Hagan, William T. Ouanah Parker. Comanche Chief. 1993.

Iverson, Peter. Carlos Montezuma and the Changing World of American Indians. 1982.

Lurie, Nancy. Mountain Wolf Woman.

Means, Russell. Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means. 1996.

Miller, Jay, ed. Mourning Dove. 1990.

Qoyawayma, Polingaysi. No Turning Back.

Radin, Paul.  The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1920.

Wachowich, Nancy, in collaboration with Apphia Agalakti Awa, Rhoda Kaukjak Katsak and Sandra Pikujak Katsak. Saqiyuq: Stories from the Lives of Three Inuit Women. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1999.



Life Histories

Ashplant, T. G. “Anecdote as Narrative Resource in Workking-Class Life Stories: Parody, Dramatization and Sequence.” In Narrative and Genre. Edited by Mary Chamberlain and Paul Thompson. London: Routledge, 1998.

Bertaux, Daniel.  Biography and Society: The Life History Approach in the Social Sciences. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1981.

Chamberlain, Mary and Paul Thompson, “Introduction: Genre and Narrative in Life Stories.” In Narrative and Genre. Edited by Mary Chamberlain and Paul Thompson. London: Routledge, 1998.

Dollard, John.  Criteria for the Life History. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 1935.

Elbaz, Robert.  The Changing Nature of the Self: A Critical Study of Autobiographical Discourse. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1987.

Kluckhohn, Clyde.  “The Personal Document in Anthropological Science.” In L. Gottschalk, C. Kluckhohn and R. Angell (eds).  The Use of the Personal Documents in History, Anthropology, and Sociology, 78-173. Social Science Research Council, 1945 Bulletin 53, 1945.

Kristeva, Julia.  “The Subject in Signifying Practice.” Semiotext(e) c13 (1975): 44-55.

Langness, L.L. The Life History in Anthroplogical Science (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965.

Lopes, José Sérgio Leite and Rosilene Alvim, “A Brazilian Worker’s Autobiography in an Unexpected Form.” In Narrative and Genre. Edited by Mary Chamberlain and Paul Thompson. London: Routledge, 1998.

Mandelbaum, David G. “The Study of Life History: Ghandi.” Current Anthropology (1973): 177-196.

McCall, Michal.  “Life History and Social Change.” Studies in Symbolic Interaction 6 (1985): 169-182.

Misch, G. (E. W. Dickes trans).  A History of Autobiography in Antiquity. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1951.

Ochberg, Richard L. “Interpreting Life Stories.” in   Josselson, Ruthellen, ed. The Narrative Study of Lives, 97-133. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1996.

Olney, James. “Autobiography and the Cultural Moment: A Thematic, Historical, and Bibliographical Introduction.” in James Olney (ed) Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical, 3-27. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.

Preston, Sarah, ed. Let the Past Go: A Life History, narrated by Alice Jacob. Canadian Museum of Civilization. Mercury Series. Ethnology Service Paper 104. Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, 1986.

Renza, Louis A.   “The Veto of the Imagination: A Theory  of Autobiography” in James Olney, ed. Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical, 268-95. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980.

Rosenthal, Gabriele.  “Reconstruction of Life Stories: Principles of Selection in Generating Stories for Narratives Biographical Interviews” in Ruthellen Josselson and Amia Lieblich,  eds. The Narrative Study of Lives Vol. 1, 59-91. Newbury Park: Sage, 1993.

Stahl, Sandra K. D. “The Personal Narrative as Folklore.” Journal of Folklore Institute 14 (1977): 9-30.

Thompson, Paul. “Sharing and Reshaping Life Stories: Problems and Potential in Archiving Research Narratives.” In Narrative and Genre. Edited by Mary Chamberlain and Paul Thompson. London: Routledge, 1998.

Titon, Jeff Todd.  “The Life Story.” Journal of American Folklore 93 (1980): 276-292.
 
Turner, Victor W. and Edward M. Bruner, eds. The Anthropology of Experience.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986.

Watson, Lawrence C. and Maria-Barbara Watson-Franke.  Interpretating Life Histories: An Anthropological Inquiry. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University, 1985.

Widdershoven, Guy A. M. “The Story of Life: Hermeneutic  Perspectives Between the Narrative and Life History” in Rutthellen Josselson and Amia Lieblich (eds).  The Narrative Study of Lives vol. 1, 1-20. Newbury Park: Sage, 1993.



Collecting Oral Histories

Barker, Rhiannon and Nigel Cross.  “Documenting Oral History in the African Sahel” in in Lore: Capturing Traditional Environmental Knowledge ed. Martha Johnson, 113-35. Ottawa: International Development Research Centre, 1992.

Blatz, Perry K. ”Craftsmanship and Flexibility in Oral History: A Pluralistic Approach to Methodology and Theory.” Public Historian 12 (1990): 7-22.

Dudley, Kathryn Marie. “In the Archive, In the Field: What Kind of Document is an ‘Oral History”?” In Narrative and Genre. Edited by Mary Chamberlain and Paul Thompson. London: Routledge, 1998.

Finnegan, Ruth.  Oral Traditions as Verbal Arts: A Guide to Research Practices (New York: Routledge, 1992.

Frisch, Michael.  A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning in Oral and Public History. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1990.

Henige, David.  Oral Historiography. New York: Longman, 1982.

Hoopes, James .  Oral History: And Introduction for Students. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1979.

McMahan, Eva M. Elite Oral History Discourse: A Story of Cooperation and Coherence. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1989.

McMahan, Eva M. and Kim Lacey Rogers. Interactive Oral History Interviewing. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1994.

Pratt, Mary Louise. “Fieldwork in Common Places.” In Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, ed. by James Clifford and George E. Marcus, 27-50. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

Reimer, Derek, ed. Voices: A Guide to Oral History. Victoria: Provincial Archives of British Columbia, 1984.

Smith, Allen, ed. Directory of Oral History Collection. Phoenix, AZ: Oryz Press, 1987.

Thompson, Paul.  Voices of the Past: Oral History. 2nd  Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Tow, Valerie Raleigh.  Recording Oral History: A Practical for Social Scientists. Walnut Grove: AltaMira Press, 1994.

Miles, Miranda and Jonathan Crush. "Personal Narratives as Interactive Texts: Collecting and Interpreting Migrant Life-Histories." Professional Geographer (February 1993), 45(1): 87, 94.


Interviews

Becker, Howard S. “Field Methods and Techniques: A Note on Interviewing Tactics.” Human Organization 12 (1954): 31-32.

Crapanzano, Vincent.  “The Life History in Anthropological Fieldwork.” Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly 2-3 (1977): 3-7.

Goffman, Erving.  Behavior in Public Places.  New York: Free Press, 1963.

Johnson, John M. Doing Field Research. New York: Free Press, 1975.

Hoopes, James. Oral History: An Introduction for Students. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979.

Howarth, Ken. Oral History: A Handbook. Phoenix Mill, Sutton, 1998.

Kopijin, Yvette J. “The Oral History Interview in a Cross-Cultural Setting: An Analysis of its Linguistic, Social and Ideological Structure.” In Narrative and Genre. Edited by Mary Chamberlain and Paul Thompson. London: Routledge, 1998.

Miller Melvin E. “Ethics and Understanding Through Interrelationship: I and Thou in Dialogue.” in Josselson, Ruthellen, ed. The Narrative Study of Lives, 45-9. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1996.

Webster, Scott W. “ A Historian’s Perspective on Interviewing.” in in Josselson, Ruthellen, ed. The Narrative Study of Lives, 187-206. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1996.

Agar, Michael H. “Stories, Background Knowledge, and Themes: Problems in the Analysis of Life History Narrative.” American Ethnologist 7 (1986): 223-239.

Allen, Barbara.  “The Personal Point of view in Orally Communicated History.” Western Folklore 38 (1979): 115.

Crane, Julia G. and Michael V. Angrosino. Field Projects in Anthropology: A Student Handbook. 2nd Edition, 76-87. Prospect Heights, Ill: Waveland Press, 1984.

Douglas, Jack D. Creative Interviewing. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1985.

Darnell, Regna.  “The Implications of Cree Interactional Etiquette.” in Eds. Regna Darnell and Michael K. Foster, 69-77. Native North American Interaction Patterns (Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1988.

Gorden, Raymond.  Interviewing: Strategy, Techniques and Tactics. Homewood, Ill: Dorsey, 1969.

Ives, Edward D. The Tape-Recorded Interview: A Manual for Fieldworkers in Folklore and Oral History. 2nd Edition. University of Tennessee Press, 1995.

Kahn, Robert L. and Charles F. Cannel.  The Dynamics of Interviewing: Theory, Technique, and Cases. New York: John Wiley, 1957.

Kuhn, Manford H. “The Interview and the Professional Relationship.” in Arnold Rose. ed. Human Behavior and Social Processes. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962.

Maccoby, Eleanor and Nathan Maccoby.  “The Interview: A Tool of Social Science.” in Gardner Lindzey ed Handbook of Social Psychology vol. 1, 449-87. Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley, 1954.

Pratt, Mary Louise. “Fieldwork in Common Places.” in James Clifford and George E. Marcus, eds. Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, 27-50. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

Schutze, Fritz.  “Biographieforsching und Narratives Interview.” Neue Praxis 3 (1983): 283-293.

Scollon, R. “The machine stops: Silence in the metaphor of Malfunction.” in Murial Saville-Troike and Deborah Tannen, eds. Functions of Silence. Norwood: NJ: Ablex, 1984.

Strauss, Anselm.  Basics of Qualitative Research. Newbury, Park, Calif: Sage, 1990.

Tannen, D. Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue and Imagery in Conversational Discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

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Baum, Willa K. Transcribing and Editing Oral History. Altamira, 1995.

Baum, Wila K. Transcribing and Editing Oral History. Nashville, TN: American Assocation for State and Local History, 1991.

Brown, Cynthia Stokes. Like It Was: A Complete Guide to Writing Oral History. Teachers and Writers, 2000.

Brundage, Anthony.  Going to the Sources: A Guide to Historical Research and Writing. Arlington Heights, Ill: Harlan Davidson, 1989.

Chamberlin, J. Edward.  “Doing Things with Words: Putting Performance on the Page” in Laura J. Murray and Keren Rice, eds. Talking on the Page: Editing Aboriginal Oral Texts, 69-95. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.

Cruikshank, Julie.  “The Social Life of Texts: Editing on the Page and in Performance” in Laura J. Murray and Keren Rice Talking on the Page: Editing Aboriginal Oral Texts, 97-119. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.

Dauenhauer, Nora Marks and Richard Dauenhauer.  “The Paradox of talking on the Page: Some Extents of the Tlingit and Haida Experience” in Laura J. Murray and Keren Rice, eds., Talking on the Page: Editing Aboriginal Oral Texts, 3-40. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.

Delbanco, Nicholas.  “Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: The Literary Impulse, its despair and delight” Harpers (January 1999): 53-59.

DeMallie, Raymond.  “Lakota Traditionalism: History and Symbol” in Darnell and Foster 1988: 2-19.

Felt, Thomas. Researching, Writing and Publishing Local History.  Nashville, TN: American Association for State and Local History, 1976.

Hymes, Del. “Ethnopoetics, Oral-formulaic Theory and Editing Texts.” Oral Tradition 9 (1989): 330-370.

Kvale, Steinar. InterViews. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1996.

Prell, R. E. “The Double Frame of Life History in the Work of Barbara Myerhoff” in Personal Narrative Group, eds. Interpreting Women’s Lives.  Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1989.

Smith, S. A. Poetics of Woman’s Autobiography. Bloomington and Indianopolis: Indiana University Press, 1987.

Stanford, Friedman S. “Women’s Autobiographical Selves: Theory and Practice” in S. Benstock, Ed.  Localizing Strategies.  Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press; Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988.

Tannen, Deborah, ed. Analyzing Discourse: Text and Talk. Washington, D.C: Georgetown University Press, 1981.

Wolfart, H. C. “Authenticity and Aggiornamento in Spoken Texts and Their Critical Edition.” in Regna Darnell and Lise Valentine. Theorizing the Americanist Tradition, 121-49. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.




Technology

Bucher, Rue, and Charles E. Fritz and E. L. Quarantelli. “Tape Recorded Interviews in Social Research”  American Sociological Review 21 (1956): 359-364.

Byers, Paul.  “Cameras Don’t Take Pictures” Columbia University Forum 9: 1 (1964): 27-32.

Eaton, Mick and Ivan Ward. “Anthropology and Film” Screen 17 (1976): 113-118.

Fletcher, William.  Recording Your Family History: A Guide to Preserving Oral History with Video Tape, Audio Tape, Suggested Topics and Questions. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co, 1970.

Ives, Edward.  The Tape-Recorded Interview: A Manual for Field Workers in Folklore and Oral History. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1980.

Jolly, Brad.  Videotaping Local History. Nashville, TN: American Association for State and Local History, 1982.

Silverman, David.  “Interview Talk: Bringing Off a Research Instrument” Sociology 7 (1973): 31-48.

Tedlock, Dennis.  “Ethnography as Interaction: The Storyteller, the Audience, the Fieldworker, and the Machine.” in Native North American Interaction Patterns. Ed. Regna Darnell and Michael K. Foster, 80-94. Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1988.

Worth, Sol and John Adair.  “Navajo Filmakers” American Anthropologist 72 (1970): 9-34.



Practical Applications of Oral History

Atkins, J. D. C.  “Correspondence on the Subject of Teaching the Vernacular in Indian Schools.” Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office: 1888.

Darnell, Regna.  “The Bilingual Speech Community: A Cree Example” in Regna Darnell, ed. Linguistic Diversity in Canadian Society, 155-72.  Edmonton, AB: Linguistic Research, 1971.

Dinwoodie, David. “Authorizing Voices: Going Public in an Indigenous Language.” Cultural Anthropology 13: 2 (1998), 193-223.

Geertz, Clifford.  Local Knowledge. New York: Basic Books, 1983.

Heath, S. B. “What no Bedtime Story Means: Narrative Skills at home and School.” Language in Society  11: 2 (1982), 49-76.

McDonald Fleming, Miriam. “Reindeer Management in Canada’s Belcher Islands: Documenting and Using Traditional Environmental Knowledge.” in Lore: Capturing Traditional Environmental Knowledge. ed. Martha Johnson, 69-87. Ottawa: International Development Research Centre, 1992.

Michaels, S. “Sharing Time: Children’s Narrative Styles and Differential Access to Literacy.” Language and Society 10 (1983): 42-442.

Murdoch, John, George Diamond and Hugo Hester.  Report on Cree Way Project. Rupert House, PQ: Cree Way Project, 1976.

Sitton, Thad et al. Oral History: A Guide for Teachers (and Others). Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1983.



Oral History in the Courts – The Delgamuuk Decision

Callison, Cynthia. “Appropriation of Aboriginal Oral Traditions.” University of British Columbia Law Review. Special Issue: Material Culture in Flux: Law and Policy of Repatriation of Cultural Property, (1995) 162-72.

Culhane, Dara. “Adding Insult to Injury: Her Majesty’s Loyal Anthropologist” BC Studies 95 (1992): 66-92.

Fisher, Robin. “Judging History: Reflections on the Reasons for Judgment in Delgamuukw v. B.C.” BC Studies 95 (1992): 43-54.

Grant, Peter R. and Neil J. Stewart.  "The Delgamuukw Decision and Oral History" in Ron F. Laliberte, Priscilla Settee, James B. Waldram, Rob Innes, Brenda Macdougall, Lesley McBain, F. Laurie Barron (eds). Expressions in Canadian Native Studies, 291-313.  Saskatoon: University of Saskatchewan Extensions Press, 2000.