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Rethinking oral history and tradition : an indigenous perspective

Title
Rethinking oral history and tradition : an indigenous perspective / Nēpia Mahuika.
ISBN
9780190681685
0190681683
9780190681692
9780190681708
9780190681715
Publication
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Physical Description
270 pages ; 25 cm.
Summary
"For many indigenous peoples, oral history is a living intergenerational phenomenon that is crucial to the transmission of our languages, cultural knowledge, politics, and identities. Indigenous oral histories are not merely traditions, myths, chants or superstitions, but are valid historical accounts passed on vocally in various forms, forums, and practices. Rethinking Oral History and Tradition: An Indigenous Perspective provides a specific native and tribal account of the meaning, form, politics and practice of oral history. It is a rethinking and critique of the popular and powerful ideas that now populate and define the fields of oral history and tradition, which have in the process displaced indigenous perspectives. This book, drawing on indigenous voices, explores the overlaps and differences between the studies of oral history and oral tradition, and urges scholars in both disciplines to revisit the way their fields think about orality, oral history methods, transmission, narrative, power, ethics, oral history theories and politics. Indigenous knowledge and experience holds important contributions that have the potential to expand and develop robust academic thinking in the study of both oral history and tradition.-- Provided by the publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 16, 2019
Series
Oxford oral history series.
Oxford oral history series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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