Paper II Oral History

Objectives:
Oral history is a dominant field of history writings for knowledge and information. The
purpose of this course is to introduce students to the theories, methods and ethics of oral
history and its significance to the historical literature. It will help students in better
understanding of the tools available for history writing beyond static sources

Unit-1 1.03 Definitions of Oral history-Meaning of Key Concepts
1.04 Scope-Significance of Oral history, Objectivity and Oral Sources

Unit-2 2.01 Collecting and Preserving memoirs and Oral history
2.02 Facts versus Truth-Errors in Oral history
2.03 Listening –Ethics and responsibilities

Unit-3 3.01 Myths
3.02 Folklore
3.03 Gender and Oral history

Unit-4 4.01 Interviewing techniques
4.02 Interpreting memories
4.03 Transcribing and Oral history

Suggested References:
Baum, W.K. Transcribing and Editing Oral History
Hoopes,James Oral History: An Introduction for Students
McMahan, E.V. & Rogers, K.L. (eds) Interactive Oral History: Interviewing
Perks R & Thomson, A. The Oral History Reader
Riitchie D.A., Doing Oral History A Practical Guide