The Oral History Review articles from December 2004

The Oral History Review archives from December 2004

Editor's introduction.(Editorial)
December 22, 2004... The relationship between oral history and journalism has often attracted comment, and indeed many people involved in the practice of oral history have previous experience in journalism. Mark Feldstein, an award-winning journalist who now holds...

Kissing cousins: journalism and oral history.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2004... Abstract This article explores the similarities and differences between journalism and oral history. Where does one end and the other begin? What might each learn from the other? The author compares both print and broadcast journalism to oral...

Blended voices: crafting a narrative from oral history interviews.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2004... Abstract Editing oral history interviews for publication is part of a joint construction of a narrative by both the narrator and the oral historian. In this article, editing oral history is discussed through the case study, Blended Voices, a...

Exploring personal history: a case study of an Italian immigrant woman.
December 22, 2004... Abstract This paper is a study of an Italian immigrant woman based on interviews conducted with my grandmother in 1996. Her testimony alongside traditional conceptual frameworks shows that interpreting oral history is a work that must be...

The Intolerable Burden.(Movie Review)
December 22, 2004... THE INTOLERABLE BURDEN. Directed by Chea Price and produced by Constance Curry. New York: West Glen Films, 2002. In Intolerable Burden citizens of Drew, Mississippi, both black and white, tell the story of the desegregation and...

Oroitzapenak Memories: Basque Oral History Project.
December 22, 2004... OROITZAPENAK MEMORIES: BASQUE ORAL HISTORY PROJECT. Produced by Basque Museum And Cultural Center, Boise, Idaho; http://www.basquemuseum.com/oralhistory/index.htm. OROITZAPENAMEK MEMORIES:VOICES FROM BASQUE AMERICA. Produced by The Center...

Radio Diaries: an Oral History Of The Wasps.(Television Program Review)
December 22, 2004... RADIO DIARIES: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE WASPS. Produced by Joe Richman, Teal Krech, and Shelley Preston. Washington D.C., National Public Radio. Radio Diaries: An Oral History of the WASPs is a half-hour documentary chronicling the work of...

The Cineaste Interviews.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... THE CINEASTE INTERVIEWS, 2. Edited by Gary Crowdus and Dan Georgakas. Chicago: Lake View Press, 2002. 286 pp. Softbound $18.95. Oral history, although we do not often enough recognize the fact, is the natural domain for serious-minded film...

Resilience and Courage: Men, Women and the Holocaust.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... RESILIENCE AND COURAGE: MEN, WOMEN AND THE HOLOCAUST. By Nechama Tec. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. 423 pp. Hardbound $35.00. In the introduction to Nechama Tec's fifth book on the Holocaust, she refers to an issue that she...

African Words, African Voices: Critical Practices in Oral History.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... AFRICAN WORDS, AFRICAN VOICES: CRITICAL PRACTICES IN ORAL HISTORY. Edited by Luise White, Stephan F. Miescher, and David William Cohen. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. 332 pp. Hardbound $49.95; Softbound $22.95. The practice...

Memories of Wind and Waves: a Self-Portrait of Lakeside Japan.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... MEMORIES OF WIND AND WAVES: A SELF-PORTRAIT OF LAKESIDE JAPAN. By Jun'ichi Saga; translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter; illustrated by Susumu Saga. Tokyo. New York: Kodansha International, 2002.258 pp. Hardbound $24.00. This anthology...

When a Flower is Reborn: the Life and Times of a Mapuche Feminist, Rosa Isolde Reuque Paillalef.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... WHEN A FLOWER IS REBORN: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A MAPUCHE FEMINIST, ROSA ISOLDE REUQUE PAILLALEF. By Florencia E. Mallon. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. 363 pp. Hardbound $59.95; Softbound $19.95. "I'm going to tell you a little about...

The Road Not Taken: a History of Radical Social Work in the United States.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... THE ROAD NOT TAKEN: A HISTORY OF RADICAL SOCIAL WORK IN THE UNITED STATES. By Michael Reisch and Janice Andrews. New York: Brunner-Routledge, 2002. 276 pp. Hardbound $59.95; Softbound $24.95. There's a famous quotation that Dorothy Day,...

Big Doctoring in America: Profiles in Primary Care.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... BIG DOCTORING IN AMERICA: PROFILES IN PRIMARY CARE. By Fitzhugh Mullah. Berkeley: University of California Press in conjunction with the Milbank Memorial Fund (a California/Milbank Book on Health and the Public), 2002. xx, 255 pp. Hardbound...

Storytelling in Alcoholics Anonymous: a Rhetorical Analysis.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... STORYTELLING IN ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS. By George H. Jensen. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000. xi + 163 pages. Hardbound $35.00. George Jensen, professor of English, began the ethnographic work...

Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in America.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... BEYOND THE SHADOW OF CAMPTOWN: KOREAN MILITARY BRIDES IN AMERICA. By Ji-Yeon Yuh. New York and London: New York University Press, 2002.284 pp. Hardbound $25.95. Mrs. Peterson's seven-year-old biracial son doesn't like rice. He says he's an...

Bitters in the Honey: Tales of Hope and Disappointment Across Divides of Race and Time.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... BITTERS IN THE HONEY: TALES OF HOPE AND DISAPPOINTMENT ACROSS DIVIDES OF RACE AND TIME. By Beth Roy. Lafayette, AR: The University of Arkansas Press, 1999. 400 pp. Softbound $21.95. Bitters in the Honey is based on a series of oral...

After Heaven: Spirituality in America Since the 1950s.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... AFTER HEAVEN: SPIRITUALITY IN AMERICA SINCE THE 1950s. By Robert Wuthnow. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 277 pp. Softbound $18.95. Not many years ago leading social theorists of religion were predicting the decline of...

Key Themes in Qualitative Research: Continuities and Change.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... KEY THEMES IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH: CONTINUITIES AND CHANGE. By Paul Atkinson, Amanda Coffey, and Sara Delamont. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 2003. 232 pp. Hardbound $69.00; Softbound $24.95. In this new volume on qualitative...

Alejandro Tsakimp: a Shuar Healer in the Margins of History.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... ALEJANDRO TSAKIMP: A SHUAR HEALER IN THE MARGINS OF HISTORY. By Steven Rubenstein. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Softbound. 322 pp. Cloth $70.00; paper $24.95. While postcolonial studies have turned our heads to the complex...