Hiroshima Travelogue - Episode 14

We should have arrived at the train station about noon. We had some time to go for shopping before the train moved. We went to a mall we had not been able to see before. It wouldn’t open before ten so we idle about a little while. There was this 100-yen shop which sold everything from a washing mitt to a shovel at 100 yens. We turned about in the shop for an hour. I also sneaked in an Adidas shop to buy myself a discounted shirt. There were some other shops with x% off prices. I was beaten by the prices with the feeble currency I had with me.

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WRITERS WRITE: The importance of oral tradition

Let’s just try our grandparents for a beginning. They tell us and our kids stories of their yesteryears, over and over again. Until finally we hear them tell it so many times we wonder why they keep on repeating these old times. Unconsciously, this is the way our minds work to pass history on. There was a time when writing, reading, books, radio, TV and electronics of today were not present to record and pass information along for the next generation. When people sit around the campfire or kitchen table sharing stories of the past, this is called “oral tradition.” Stories of growing up, life at home, with family, at work, school or in the neighborhood. Just plain talk and sharing the events, not even thinking that these are the words that will be remembered forever in a child’s mind.

Oral History Project Documenting Oil Spill Impact Funded with Grant from NOAA

University of Southern Mississippi Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage interviews with Gulf Coast marine harvesters affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil (DWH) Spill are included in an initiative supported with funding by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NOAA’s DWH Oral History Project documents the experience of people living in Gulf of Mexico (GOM) DWH oil-spill-affected fishing communities. The oral history data complements other social and economic data about the spill collected by NOAA and other governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations.

ORAL HISTORY: A Collaborative Method of (Auto)Biography Interview (Part IV)

In 1990 Michael Frisch coined the term shared authority, which put a name to an issue of particular salience in the oral history process: the extent to which oral history is collaborative. Frisch used the term shared authority to denote the collaboration of the researcher and narrator during interpretation and representation (Thomson, 2003, p. 23). While the last chapter of this book details the broad issues of interpretation, analysis, and representation that are central to qualitative research, given the particulars of the oral history method, it warrants its own discussion of interpretation.

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