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Bibliographies


Methodology

War, Genocide and Testimony

Butalia, Urvashti. 1997. "A question of silence: Partition, women and the state." In Gender and Catastrophe. (ed.) Ronit Lentin. London; New York: Zed Books.

Di Paolantonio, Mario. 2000. "Loss in present terms: Readings the limits of post-dictatorship Argentina's national conciliation." In Between Hope and Despair: Pedagogy and the Remembrance of Trauma. (eds.) Roger Simon, Sharon Rosenberg and Claudia Eppert. Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield.

Lentin, Ronit. 1997. "Introduction: (En)gendering genocides." In Gender and Catastrophe. (ed.) Ronit Lentin. London; New York: Zed Books.

Ranck, Jody. 2000. "Beyond reconciliation: Memory and alterity in post-genocide Rwanda." In Between Hope and Despair: Pedagogy and the Remembrance of Trauma. (ed.) Roger Simon, Sharon Rosenberg and Claudia Eppert. Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield.

Ringelheim, Joan. 1997. "Genocide and gender: A split memory." In Gender and Catastrophe. (ed.) Ronit Lentin. London; New York: Zed Books.

Simon, Roger, Sharon Rosenberg and Claudia Eppert. 2000. Between Hope and Despair: Pedagogy and the Remembrance of Trauma. Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield.

Simon, Rogers, Claudia Eppert, Mark Clement and Laura Beres. 2002. "Witness as Study: the difficult inheritance of testimony." The Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies 22(4): 285-322.

Zur, Judith. 1997. "Reconstructing the self through memories of violence among Mayan Indian war widows." In Gender and Catastrophe. (ed.) Ronit Lentin. London; New York: Zed Books. 64-76.

 

Feminist Methodology

Barry, Kathleen. 1988. Susan B. Anthony: A Biography of a Singular Feminist. New York and London: New York University Press.

Clough, Patricia. 1993. "Response to Smith's response." In The Sociological Quarterly 34(1): 193-194.

__________. 1993. "On the brink of deconstructing sociology: Critical reading of Dorothy Smith's standpoint epistemology." In The Sociological Quarterly 34(1): 169-182.

Contratto, Susan. 1985. "Introduction." In Bus Dignity: Lower Income Women Tell of Their Lives and Struggles. Fran Leeper. University of Michigan Press.

Cosslett, Tess, Celia Lury and Penny Summerfield. 2000. Feminism and Autobiography: Texts, Theories, Methods. London & New York: Routledge.

Fowlkes, Diane L. 1997. "Moving from identity politics through a feminist materialist standpoint of intersubjectivity." In Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 12(2) 105-124.

Gorelick, Sherry. 1996. "Contradictions of feminist methodology." In Feminism and Social Change: Bridging Theory and Practice. (ed.) Heidi Gottfried. Chicago: University of Illinois Press.

Kesler, Suzanne J. and Wendy McKenna. 1978. Gender: An Ethnomethodological Approach. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Lather, Patti. 1995. "Feminist perspectives on empowering research methodologies." In Debates and Issues in Feminist Research and Pedagogy. (eds.) Janet Holland and Maud Blair. Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters LTD.

Lawless, Elaine J. 2001. Women Escaping Violence: Empowerment through Narrative. Columbia: University of Missouri Press.

Middleton, Sue. 1993. Educating Feminists: Life Histories and Pedagogy. New York: Teachers College Press.

Personal Narratives Group. ed. 1989. Interpreting Women's Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.

Smith, Dorothy. 1987. The Everyday World as Problematic. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

__________. 1993. A high noon in textland: A critique of Clough. In The Sociological Quarterly 34(1): 183-192.

__________. 1999. Writing the Social: Critique, Theory and Investigations. University of Toronto Press.

Spender, Dale. ed. 1987. Personal Chronicles: Women's Autobiographical Writings. Special Issue of Women's Studies International Forum 10(1).

Sutton, Margaret. 1998. "A feminist epistemology and research methods." In Women in the Third World: An Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Issues. (ed.) Nelly P. Stromquist and Karen Monkman. New York: Garland Publishing.

 

Oral History

Allen, Barbara. 1979. "The personal point of view in orally communicated history." In Western Folklore 38: 115.

__________. 1987. Homesteading the High Desert. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.

Anderson, Kathryn, Susan Armitage, Dana Jack and Judith Wittner. 1987. "Beginning where we are: Feminist methodology in oral history" In Oral History Review 57: 103-127.

Baird, Barbara. 1990. I Had One Too: An Oral History of Abortion Before 1970. Adelaide, South Australia: Women's Studies Unit, Flinders University.

Baum, Willa. 1980-81. "Therapeutic value of oral history." In International Journal of Aging and Human Development 12(1): 49-53.

__________. 1991. Transcribing and Editing Oral History. Nashville, TN: American Association for State and Local History.

__________. 1987. Oral History for the Local Historical Society. Stockton, CA: Conference of the California Historical Society.

Behar, Ruth. 1993. Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Ezperanza's Story. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.

Bell, Diane. 1987. Generations: Grandmothers, Mothers and Daughters. Melbourne: McPhee Gribble.

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

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

Blatti, Jo. 1990. "Public history and oral history." In Journal of American History 77(2): 615-26.

Blatz, Perry K. 1990. "Craftsmanship and flexibility in oral history: A pluralistic approach to methodology and theory." In Public Historian 12: 7-22.

Bodnar, John. 1996. "Generational memory in an American town." In Journal of Interdisciplinary History 26(4): 619-37.

__________. 1989. "Power and memory in oral history: Workers and managers at Studebaker." In Journal of American History 75(4): 1201-21.

Buhle, Paul. 1981. "Radicalism: The oral history contribution." In International Journal of Oral History 2(3): 205-15.

Cohen, Patsy & Margaret Somerville. 1991. "Introduction." In Ingelba and the Five Black Matriarchs. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.

Di Leonardo, Micaela. 1987. "Oral history as ethnographic encounter." In The Oral History Review 15: 1-20.

Dunaway, David K. And Willa K. Baum. eds. 1996. Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology, 2nd edition. Nashville, TN: American Association for State and Local History.

Evans, George E. 1987. Spoken History. London: Faber and Faber.

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

Fletcher, William. 1987. 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.

Frisch, Michael. 1990. A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

Gale, Fay. Ed. 1984. We Are Bosses Ourselves. Canberra: Institute for Aboriginal Studies.

Geiger, Susan N.G. 1986. "Women's Life Histories: Method and Content." in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 11(2): 334-351.

Georges, Robert A. and Michael Owen Jones. 1980. People Studying People: The Human Element in Fieldwork. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press.

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

Gluck, Sherna. 1979. "What's so special about women? Women's oral history." In Frontiers 2(2): 3-11.

Grele, Ronald J. 1990. Envelopes of Sound: The Art of Oral History, Revised Edition. Westport, CT: Meckler.

__________. 1991. "Useful discoveries: Oral history, public history, and the dialectic of narrative." In Public Historian 13(2): 61-85.

Hareven, Tamara K. 1978. "The search for generational memory: Tribal rites in industrial society." In Daedalus 107(4): 137-49.

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

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

Hoskins, Janet A. 1985. "A life history from both sides: The changing poetics of personal experience." Journal of Anthropological Research 41(2): 147-69.

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

Jeffrey, Jaclyn, and Glenace Edwall. eds. 1994. Memory and History: Essays on Remembering and Interpreting Human Experience. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

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

Joyner, Charles. 1979. "Oral history as a communicative event: A folkloristic perspective." The Oral History Review 7: 47-52.

Kammen, Carol. Ed. 1996. The Pursuit of Local History: Readings on Theory and Practice. Walnut Creek, London, New Delhi: AltaMira Press, in association with the American Association for State and Local History.

Kane, Lucile M. 1972. A Guide to the Care and Administration of Manuscripts. Nashville, TN: American Association for State and Local History.

Langford, Ruby. 1988. Don't Take Your Love to Town. Penguin, Ringwood.

Lanman, Barry A., and George L. Mehaffy. 1989. Oral History in the Secondary School Classroom. Los Angeles, CA: Oral History Association.

Leydesdorff, Selma, Luisa Passerini and Paul Thompson. eds. 1996. Gender and Memory: International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories, Volume IV. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Lowenstein, Wendy. 1978. Weevils in the Flour: An Oral Record of the 1930s Depression in Australia. Melbourne: Highland House.

McMahan, Eva and Kim Lacy Rogers. eds. 1994. Interactive Oral History Interviewing. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

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

Mercier, Laurie and Madeline Buckendorf. 1992. Using Oral History in Community History Projects. Los Angeles, CA: Oral History Association, Pamphlet No. 4.

Milich, Zorka. 1995. A Stranger's Supper: An Oral History of Centenarian Women in Montenegro. New York: Twayne Publishers.

Modjeska, Drusilla. 1989. Inner Cities: Australian Women's Memory of Place. Ringwood, Victoria: Penguin.

Montell, W. Lynwood and Barbara Allen. 1981. From Memory to History: Using Oral History Sources in Local Historical Research. Nashville, TN: American Association for State and Local History.

Montell, W. Lynwood. 1981. The Saga of Coe Ridge: A Study in Oral History. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Moore, David L. 1990. "Between cultures: Oral history among teenagers in Minneapolis." In Vietnam Generation 2(3): 38-52.

Morissey, Charles T. 1985. "Oral history and the boundaries of fiction." In Public Historian 7(2): 41-46.

Munck, Ronnie and Bill Rolston. 1985. "Oral history and social conflict: Belfast in the 1930s." In The Oral History Review 13: 1-21. [Errata to this article, Vol. 14 (1986): 115].

Myerhoff, Barbara. 1979. Number Our Days: A Triumph of Continuity and Culture Among Jewish Old People in an Urban Ghetto. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster.

Nathan, Harriet. 1986. Critical Choices in Interviews: Conduct, Use, and Research Role. Berkeley, CA: Institute of Governmental Studies.

Neuenschwander, John. 1997. "Oral history and the law: An update." Oral History Association Newsletter. 31(Winter): 4-6.

__________. 1986. Oral History and the Law. Los Angeles, CA: Oral History Association.

Oral History Association. 1992. Evaluation Guidelines. Los Angeles, CA: Oral History Association.

Palmer, Joseph W. 1984. Oral History in Public Libraries. Champaign: University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science Occasional Papers.

Passerini, Luisa. 1987. Fascism in Popular Memory: The Cultural Experience of the Turin Working Class. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

__________. ed. 1992. Memory and Totalitarianism: International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories, Volume I. Oxford University Press.

Perata, David D. 1996. Those Pullman Blues: An Oral History of the African American Railroad Attendant. New York: Twayne Publishers.

Perks, Robert and Alistair Thomso. eds. 1998. The Oral History Reader. Routledge.

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

__________. 1991. The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in Oral History. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

__________. 1981. "'The time of my life': Functions of time in oral history." In International Journal of Oral History 2(3): 162-80.

__________. 1981. "The peculiarities of oral history." In History Workshop 12: 96-107.

Ransel, David. 2000. Village Mothers: Three Generations of Change in Russia and Tataria. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Ritchie, Donald A. 1995. Doing Oral History. New York: Twayne Publishers.

Roughsey, Elsie. 1984. An Aboriginal Mother Tells of the Old and the New, Ringwood, Victoria: McPhee Gribble/Penguin.

Schrager, Samuel. 1983. "What is social in oral history?" In International Journal of Oral History 4: 76-98.

Sculle, Kenneth A. 1990. "Oral history: A key to writing the history of American roadside architecture." In Journal of American Culture 13: 79-88.

Shopes, Linda. 1980. Using Oral History for a Family History Project. Nashville, TN: American Association for State and Local History, Technical Leaflet No. 123.

Shostak, Marjorie. 1983. Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman. New York: Vintage.

__________. 1989. "What the wind won't take away: The genesis of Nisa- The Life And Words of a !Kung Woman." In Interpreting Women's Lives. Personal Narratives Group (eds). Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.

Shumway, Gary L. and William G. Hartley. 1973. An Oral History Primer. Salt Lake City, UT: published by the authors.

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

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

Smith, Richard Candida. 1988. "Popular memory and oral narratives: Luisa Passerini's reading of oral history interviews." In The Oral History Review 16(2): 95-107.

Stricklin, David and Rebecca Sharpless. eds. 1988. The Past Meets the Present: Essays on Oral History. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

Terkel, Studs. 1970. Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression. New York: Pantheon Books.

__________. 1984. The Good War: An Oral History of World War II. New York: Pantheon Books.

__________. 1995. Coming of Age: The Story of Our Century By Those Who've Lived It. New York: The New Press.

Thelen, David. ed. 1989. Memory and American History- Special Issue of Journal of American History 75(4).

Thompson, Paul. 1989. The Voice of the Past, 2nd Edition. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Thornbrough, Emma Lou. 2000. Indiana Blacks in the Twentieth Century. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Tucker, Susan. 1988. Telling Memories among Southern Women: Domestic Workers and Their Employers in the Segregated South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

Utemorrah, Daisy. 1991. Do Not Go Around the Edges. Sydney: Magabala Books.

Vansina, Jan. 1961. Oral Tradition: A Study in Historical Methodology. Chicago: Aldine.

__________. 1985. Oral Tradition as History. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

Ward, Alan. 1990. A Manual of Sound Archive Administration. Brookfield, VT: Gower.

Watson, Rubie. 1994. Memory, History, and Opposition under State Socialism. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press.

Witherell, Carol and Nell Noddings. 1991. Stories Lives Tell: Narrative Dialogue in Education. New York: Teacher's College Press.

Yow, Valerie Raleigh. 1994. Recording Oral History: A Practical Guide for Social Scientists. Walnut Grove, London, New Delhi: AltaMira Press, in association with the American Association for State and Local History.

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

 

General

Abu-Lughod, Leila. 1991. "Writing Against Culture." In Recapturing Anthropology. (ed.) Richard Fox. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press.

Behar, Ruth. 1996. The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart. Boston: Beacon Press.

Bodnar, John. 1982. Workers' World. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Carspecken, Phil Francis. 1996. Critical Ethnography in Educational Research: a Theoretical and Practical Guide. New York: Routledge.

Clandinin, D. Jean and F. Michael Connelly. 2000. Narrative Inquiry: Experience and Story in Qualitative Research. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

Clifford, James. 1985. "Introduction: Partial truths." In Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. (eds.) James Clifford and George Marcus. Berkeley: University of California Press.

__________. ed. 1985. Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. Berkley: University of California Press.

Denzin, Norman K. 1997. Interpretative Ethnography: Ethnographic Practices for the 21st Century. London: Sage Publications.

Graham, Laurie. 1995. On the Line at Subaru-Isuzu: The Japanese Model and the American Worker. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.

Josselson, Ruthellen. 1996. ed. Ethics and Process in the Narrative Study of Lives. London: Sage Publications.

Josselson, Ruthellen and Amia Lieblich. 1993. The Narrative Study of Lives. London: Sage Publications.

Joseph, Saud.1993. "Fieldwork and Psychosocial Dynamics of Personhood." In Frontiers 13(3): 9-32.

Kincheloe, Joe L and Peter McLaren. 1998. "Rethinking critical theory and qualitative research." In The Landscape of Qualitative Research: Theories and Issues. (ed.) Norman Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Lather, Patti. "Issues of validity in openly ideological research." In Interchange 17(4) 63-84.

Rogers, Kim Lacy, Selma Leydesdorff, and Graham Dawson. eds. 1999. Trauma and Life Stories: International Perspectives. Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative, Volume 2. London and New York: Routledge.

Said, Edward S. 1989. "Representing the colonized: Anthropology's interlocators." In Critical Inquiry 15.

Seidman, I.E. 1991. Interviewing as Qualitative Research: A Guide for Researchers in Education and the Social Sciences. New York: Teachers' College Press.

Simon, Roger I., Claudia Eppert, Mark Clamen and Laura Beres. 2001. "Witness as Study: the Difficult Inheritance of Testimony." In The Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies 22(4): 285-322.

Simon, Roger I., Sharon Rosenberg and Claudia Eppert. eds. 2000. Between Hope and Despair: Pedagogy and the Remembrance of Historical Trauma. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Spivak, Gayatri. 1988. "Can the Subaltern Speak?" In Marxism and Interpretation of Culture. (ed.) Newton Cary. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

 

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