Oral history — definition?
Reconstructs the past from oral testimonies.
Systematic source use — role?
Organized collection and application of oral testimonies.
Oral history as research method -
Reconstructs past from oral testimonies.
Oral testimony source -
Spoken account used for historical info.
Systematic recovery of oral sources -
Organized collection and preservation.
Positivist distrust of oral sources -
19th-century skepticism about reliability.
Herodotus’s oral sources -
Described Persian Wars with oral accounts.
Medieval oral testimony -
Used in chronicles, combined with written sources.
Oral history centers -
Institutions for collecting oral testimonies.
Answer 11 questions on Unlocking Voices in History.
1. What was a major consequence of the new oral history approach for historical evidence?
2. Why is oral history considered innovative in historiography?
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