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Traditional recall and family histories: a commentary on mode and method
Selected papers on a Serbian village : social structure as reflected by history, demography and oral tradition • Amherst, Mass. • Published In 1977 • Pages: 165-198
By: Halpern, Barbara, Halpern, Joel Martin, Foley, John Miles.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this document the Halperns attempt to analyze the degree of reliability of recall of individuals in regard to their collective pasts. The authors examine the role of oral transmission in everyday life, then discuss how the values of the narrator may condition the data being presented, and how this information, gathered from oral recall, match archival and other written records. Contrastive material is also presented here from a contemporary English village (Akenfield) where oral tradition exists in a more attenuated form than found in Orasac village. Using as an example an autobiographical text prepared by one of their informants, a detailed analysis is made to show how oral traditional history is perpetuated in the course of transition to writing.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- Traditional history
- Literary texts
- Lineages
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Serbs
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1997
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeastern Europe
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1996
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1953-1966
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1953-1966
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Orasac Village, Serbia and Montenegro
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Barbara Kerewsky Halpern, Joel M. Halpern and John Miles Foley
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-191)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sf80001606
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Serbs