Flashcards: Unlocking Voices in History — 9 cards

Oral history — definition?

Reconstructs the past from oral testimonies.

Oral history as research method -

Reconstructs past from oral testimonies.

Systematic source use — role?

Organized collection and application of oral testimonies.

Oral testimony source -

Spoken account used for historical info.

Systematic recovery of oral sources -

Organized collection and preservation.

Positivist distrust of oral sources -

19th-century skepticism about reliability.

Herodotus’s oral sources -

Described Persian Wars with oral accounts.

Medieval oral testimony -

Used in chronicles, combined with written sources.

Oral history centers -

Institutions for collecting oral testimonies.