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Le cinéma amazigh-berbère et les autres médias

Amar Améziane, Daniela Merolla (eds.)

Paris: L'Harmattan (2023), 227 pp.

"Des échanges intertextuels entre films, oralité et écriture ont caractérisé la production cinématographique des années 1990 et un certain nombre d’études leur ont été dédiées. Moins traitées par la recherche sont les relations entretenues par le cinéma avec la télévision et l’In ... more

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Decolonising Journalism Education in South Africa: Critical Perspectives

Ylva Rodny-Gumede, Colin Chasi, Zubeida Jaffer, Mvuso Ponono (eds.)

London, New York: Routledge (2023), xv, 271 pp.

"This volume responds to the great need to rethink journalism from various perspectives including journalism training, research, the contents of the news media, language, media ethics, the safety of journalists and gender inequities in the news media." (Publisher description)

Oralidades y escrituras kichwas

Fernando Garcés V., Armando Muyolema C. (coord.)

Quito: Abya-Yala;Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (2022), 210 pp.

Subalternities in India and Latin America: Dalit Autobiographies and the Testimonio

Sonya Surabhi Gupta (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2022), xii, 216 pp.

"This volume presents a comparative exploration of Dalit autobiographical writing from India and of Latin American testimonio as subaltern voices from two regions of the Global South. Offering frames for linking global subalternity today, the chapters address Siddalingaiah's Ooru Keri; Muli's Life H ... more

Living Archives: An Introductory Toolkit for Civil Society Organizations in the Creation of Human Rights Oral Archives and Organizing Their Documentation
Key Guidance

Ernesto Mora Forero, Rosario Arias Callejas

Global Initiative for Justice Truth & Reconciliation (GIJTR) (2021), 151 pp.

"This document was developed as an instrument to support civil society organizations (CSOs) in Colombia in the development of oral archives and in the organization of their archival collections. It draws from the experience of GIJTR partners International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (ICSC) and ... more

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Mass Violence and Memory in the Digital Age: Memorialization Unmoored

Eve Monique Zucker, David J. Simon (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xviii, 246 pp.

"This volume explores the shifting tides of how political violence is memorialized in today's decentralized, digital era. The book enhances our understanding of how the digital turn is changing the ways that we remember, interpret, and memorialize the past. It also raises practical and ethical quest ... more

Collective Memory and Oral Text

Marta Wojcicka

Berlin: Peter Lang (2020), 374 pp.

"The aim of this monograph is an attempt to examine the relationship between collective memory and oral texts. The material basis for this presentation consists of folklore oral texts, both prosaic and poetic, different as regards their genres (fairy tales, fables, recollections, traditions, legends ... more

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Journalistic Griots: The Marginalization of Indigenous Language News and Oral Epistemologies in Ghana

Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed

Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 17, issue 2 (2019), pp. 235-252

"This study examines news production and newsroom culture in radio stations in Ghana’s Northern Region. It explores the dynamics of news production and delivery in indigenous language newsrooms. Through in-depth interviews with eight indigenous language news presenters and journalists, the study c ... more

Experiences in Oral History: Contemporary Witness Interviews in Archive Organizations and Historical Research

Berlin: Heinrich Böll Stiftung (2018), 64 pp.

"The overall aim of the workshop was to promote discussion among the archives on their respective practices, to reflect on the practice of interviewing with the involved historians and, last but not least, to find ways to make better use of the interviews available in the archives [...] The first pa ... more

Hören, Sehen, Staunen: Kulturgeschichte des mündlichen Erzählens

Johannes Merkel

Hildesheim; Zürich; New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2. überarb. und erw. Aufl. (2018), 598 pp.

"Beim Stichwort „mündliches Erzählen“ denkt man hierzulande vor allem an „Märchen“, kurze und wundersame Erzählungen der Landbevölkerung vergangener Zeiten. Tatsächlich aber kannten alle Kulturen raffinierte Erzählkünste, die häufig auch Schriftliteratur und Theater inspirierten. Au ... more

The Oral History Manual

Barbara W. Sommer, Mary Kay Quinlan

Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 3rd ed. (2018), viii, 145 pp.

"The Oral History Manual is designed to help anyone interested in doing oral history research to think like an oral historian. Recognizing that oral history is a research methodology, the authors define oral history and then discuss the methodology in the context of the oral history life cycle – t ... more

Searching for Sharing: Heritage and Multimedia in Africa

Daniela Merolla, Mark Turin (eds.)

Open Book Publishers (2017), 149 pp.

"In a world where new technologies are being developed at a dizzying pace, how can we best approach oral genres that represent heritage? Taking an innovative and interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores the idea of sharing as a model to construct and disseminate the knowledge of literary her ... more

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The Caribbean Oral Tradition: Literature, Performance, and Practice

Hanétha Vété-Congolo (ed.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xxvii, 201 pp.

"The book uses an innovative prism of interorality that powerfully reevaluates Caribbean orality and innovatively casts light on its overlooked and fundamental epistemological contribution into the formation of Caribbean philosophy. It defines the innovative prism of interorality as the systematic t ... more

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Oral History Theory

Lynn Abrams

London; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2016), xi, 238 pp.

"Oral history is increasingly acknowledged as a key tool for anyone studying the history of the recent past. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive and systematic overview of oral history theory in an accessible format.The book is structured around key themes, including the peculiarities ... more

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Memory on Trial: Media, Citizenship and Social Justice

Anders Høg Hansen, Oscar Hemer, Thomas Tufte (eds.)

Wien; Zürich: Lit (2015), ii, 186 pp.

"This book approaches the memory sharing of groups, communities and societies as inevitable struggles over the interpretation of, and authority over, particular stories. Coming to terms with the past in memory work, alone or with others, is always unsteady ground and the activation of memory will al ... more

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Remediating Orality: The Cultural Domestication of Video Technology in Kenya

James Odhiambo Ogone

Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 29, issue 4 (2015), pp. 479-495

"The influence of globalisation and its attendant modern technologies has reconfigured the manner in which orality functions in the contemporary African context. Confronted with the powerful presence of media technologies that threaten to supplant its central role in many African societies, orality ... more

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Oral History and Digital Humanities: Voice, Access, and Engagement

Douglas A. Boyd, Mary A. Larson (eds.)

New York et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), xv, 205 pp.

"Exploring the developments that have occurred in the practice of oral history since digital audio and video became viable, this book explores various groundbreaking projects in the history of digital oral history, distilling the insights of pioneers in the field and applying them to the constantly ... more

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