essay
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.
Abstract
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.
- HRAF PubDate
- 1997
- Region
- Europe
- Sub Region
- Southeastern Europe
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 1996
- Field Date
- 1953-1966
- Coverage Date
- 1953-1966
- Coverage Place
- Orasac Village, Serbia and Montenegro
- Notes
- by Barbara Kerewsky Halpern, Joel M. Halpern and John Miles Foley
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-191)
- LCCN
- sf80001606
- LCSH
- Serbs