The Peculiarities of Oral History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4493984 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alessandro Portelli (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 96-107 |
| Publication date | 1981-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Workshop Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hwj/12.1.96 |
| OpenAlex | W2007365779 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 149 |
The Peculiarities of Oral History Get access Alessandro Portelli Alessandro Portelli Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 12, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1981, Pages 96–107, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/12.1.96 Published: 01 October 1981
Archaeology · Library science · Oral history · Computer Science · History · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
Urban archives
People’s Relational Agency in Confronting Exclusion in Rural South India
O movimento social surdo e a campanha pela oficialização da língua brasileira de sinais
Facets of Facebook
Changing Identities of Indian Migrants in the West
La cultura material gay del tardofranquismo a través de la memoria oral de Serafín Fernández Rodríguez
Politics of Symbolism
Goodbye Old Man
Relicário de memórias - Educação Popular na década de 1960
Las memorias del deseo
Oral histories, farm practice and uncovering meaning in the countryside
Learning To Live Together? The Open University, Student-prisoners And ‘the Troubles’
Historical Perspectives and Methodologies
Forgetting the Revolution and Remembering the War
First of all, let's go learn something
Speech and Writing in the Northern Star
Doin’ It for Themselves! A Case Study of the Development of a Women's Australian Rules Football Competition
Histoire orale et histoire des femmes
When You Listen to the Winds of Childhood, How Much Can You Believe
Narratives of Indigenous Resistance in North-Western Siberia in the 1930s
Memories of Internment
Methods and approaches in the social history of the Counter‐Reformation in Italy∗
In search of working-class memory
Workers, Unions, and the Politics of Public History
Just Like You Want Me to Be
Changes in the Reading Tradition Revealed in Librarians’ Life Narratives
Stepfamilies and older people
Reminiscence and oral history
Anzac Memories Revisited
From Adventure and Advancement to Derailment and Demotion
Empathy and Authority in Oral Testimony
A Time of Normalcy
Labor, Ecology, and a Failed Agenda of Market Incentives
(Re)Collecting the Past
Stonewall, Silver Screen
Famines and the Making of Heritage
Reinventar un héroe. Narrativas sobre los soldados rasos de la guerra de Corea
Conflit au Pays basque
Improvisations
Personal Narratives as Interactive Texts
Identity and Conflict in Tuscany
Reflections on the Role of Social Narratives in Working-Class Formation
Minors in Name Only
J.R. Martin and Ruth Wodak
Listening for Women's Narratives in the Harvard Project Archive
What Makes Queer Oral History Different
Remembering Blaenavon
Opening the Books
Stories Which I Know to Be True”
Reticence in Oral History Interviews
What is Radical History Now
Who’s Afraid of Oral History? Fifty Years of Debates and Anxiety about Ethics
Troop Retention in Civil Wars
Searching for Sheboygans
Reimagining Journalistic Roles
Oral History Research
Blaming the Believers? Counter-Narratives of the Marikana Massacre (2012) and the Cattle Killings (1856–1857)
The Acoustemology of the Witch
The Digital Afterlife
Historia mówiona firm polonijnych jako przyczynek do badania historii mówionej biznesu w Polsce – wyznanie badacza
“They didn’t break me either way”. Women, Captivity and Interrogation in World War II
The violence of return
Still asking for ‘more Europe’
Tracing the Values of Fading Rural Architectural Heritage
Storytelling as oral history
Southern Sudanese Women's Resistance to State Crime
Valour, violence and the ethics of struggle
Picture Me As a Young Woman”
Negotiating ungovernable spaces between the personal and the political
Bridging the gap between subjectivity and historical generalization in Shoah video testimonies
At engagement’s edge
An Oral History of the Ethics of Institutional Closure
Governing the factory
Truth‐Telling in Trouble
Citizens under the umbrella
Re-membering the Basque nationalist family
Mapping geographies of home in the Tunisian diaspora
Feminist revision of oral history methodology for the study of armed conflicts
The self-interview
Remembering research
The talking witness documentary
Travelling memories, the afterlife of feelings, and associative diffraction in oral histories of Northern Irish migrants to Britain during the Troubles
Class performativity, modernity and the Ashkenazi-Mizrahi divide the Jewish urban middle classes of Egypt in Israel 1948-1967
The secret life of us
Drawing‐Writing Culture
Social inclusion through employment
The famished soul
Micro-history of a house
Youth, race and the inner-city estate
Grassroots Transnationalism(s)
We’re not ethnic, we’re Irish!’
Education without national consciousness is not education”
Missing women
Radio Redfern, 26 January 1988
The Productivity of Political Imprisonment
The (mis)uses of life histories. The linguistic turn, life histories and (women’s) life stories
A Biographical Turn in the Social Sciences? A British-European View
The Syrian Archive Digital Memory Project
How can we know the teller from the tale? Two books on verbal art in Africa
Conducting sensitive research in the present and past tense
| Unique citing works | 149 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,47 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 2026 (44) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 114 |