Oral history and public memories
Philadelphia, PA:
Temple University Press
(2008), xvii, 302 pp., illustr., index
ISBN 978-1-59213-141-9 (pbk); 978-1-59213-140-2 (hbk)
Contents
Introduction: Building Partnerships between Oral History and Memory Studies / Paula Hamilton and Linda Shopes, vii
I. CREATING HERITAGE, 3
1 Parks Canada, the Commemoration of Canada, and Northern Aboriginal Oral History / David Neufeld, 7
2 History from Above: The Use of Oral History in Shaping Collective Memory in Singapore / Kevin Blackburn, 31
3 Mapping Memories: Oral History for Aboriginal Cultural Heritage in New South Wales, Australia / Maria Nugent, 47
4 Moving beyond the Walls: The Oral History of the Ottoman Fortress Villages of Seddülbahir and Kumkale / Isil Cerem Cenker and Lucienne Thys-Senocak, 65
5 Private Memory in a Public Space: Oral History and Museums / Selma Thomas, 87
II. RECREATING IDENTITY AND COMMUNITY, 103
6 Imagining Communities: Memory, Loss, and Resilience in Post-Apartheid Cape Town / Sean Field, 107
7 Contested Places in Public Memory: Reflections on Personal Testimony and Oral History in Japanese American Heritage / Gail Lee Dubrow, 125
8 "Scars in the Ground": Kauri Gum Stories / Senka Bozic-Vrbancic, 145
9 Memory and Mourning: Living Oral History with Queer Latinos and Latinas in San Francisco / Horacio N. Roque Ramirez, 165
10 Interfaced Memory: Black World War II Ex-GIs' and Veterans' Reunions of the Late Twentieth Century / Robert F. Jefferson, 187
III. MAKING CHANGE, 207
11 Public Memory as Arena of Contested Meanings: A Student Project on Migration / Riki Van Boeschoten, 211
12 Countering Corporate Narratives from the Streets: The Cleveland Homeless Oral History Project / Daniel Kerr, 231
13 Public Memory, Gender, and National Identity in Postwar Kosovo: The Albanian Community / Silvia Salvatici, 253
14 Seeing the Past,Visions of the Future:Memory Workshops with Internally Displaced Persons in Colombia / Pilar Riano-Alcala, 269
I. CREATING HERITAGE, 3
1 Parks Canada, the Commemoration of Canada, and Northern Aboriginal Oral History / David Neufeld, 7
2 History from Above: The Use of Oral History in Shaping Collective Memory in Singapore / Kevin Blackburn, 31
3 Mapping Memories: Oral History for Aboriginal Cultural Heritage in New South Wales, Australia / Maria Nugent, 47
4 Moving beyond the Walls: The Oral History of the Ottoman Fortress Villages of Seddülbahir and Kumkale / Isil Cerem Cenker and Lucienne Thys-Senocak, 65
5 Private Memory in a Public Space: Oral History and Museums / Selma Thomas, 87
II. RECREATING IDENTITY AND COMMUNITY, 103
6 Imagining Communities: Memory, Loss, and Resilience in Post-Apartheid Cape Town / Sean Field, 107
7 Contested Places in Public Memory: Reflections on Personal Testimony and Oral History in Japanese American Heritage / Gail Lee Dubrow, 125
8 "Scars in the Ground": Kauri Gum Stories / Senka Bozic-Vrbancic, 145
9 Memory and Mourning: Living Oral History with Queer Latinos and Latinas in San Francisco / Horacio N. Roque Ramirez, 165
10 Interfaced Memory: Black World War II Ex-GIs' and Veterans' Reunions of the Late Twentieth Century / Robert F. Jefferson, 187
III. MAKING CHANGE, 207
11 Public Memory as Arena of Contested Meanings: A Student Project on Migration / Riki Van Boeschoten, 211
12 Countering Corporate Narratives from the Streets: The Cleveland Homeless Oral History Project / Daniel Kerr, 231
13 Public Memory, Gender, and National Identity in Postwar Kosovo: The Albanian Community / Silvia Salvatici, 253
14 Seeing the Past,Visions of the Future:Memory Workshops with Internally Displaced Persons in Colombia / Pilar Riano-Alcala, 269
