Biography and Voice: Naming the World

Introduction to the Practice of Interviewing. Planning an interview, interview as conversation, and writing up notes on the interview.

Read Melville and Oral History guidelines. Review various questionnaires. Select, read and summarize two articles from following material. Develop questionnaire appropriate for your site. Email material to Instructor.

The purpose of interviewing

Freire, Paulo. "Dialogics," Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Continuum,1970, 75-118.

Examples of Interview and Life histories

Behar, Ruth. "The Biography in the Shadow," Translated Woman. Boston: Beacon,1991, 321-342.

Ganguly, Keya. "Migrant Identities: Personal Memory and the Construction of Selfhood," Cultural Studies, 27-49.

Hall, Stuart. "Minimal Selves," Study ing Culture: An Introductory Reader. New York: Edward Arnold, 1993, 134-138.

Kondo, Dorinne. "The Eye/I," Crafting selves: Power, Gender and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990, 3-48.

Rubalcava, Luis. "The Role of Empathy in Ethnographic Research" unpublished manuscript.

Resources:

Huntington Park Questionnaire

Oral History Materials from the Oral History Program at the Bancroft Library

Oral Histories

Oral History Outline

Cabrera, Claudina and Elizabeth Howard. "The Oral History Project: Hispanic Issues in Sampling," Tucson: University of Arizona, Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, 1988, 18 p.

Melville, Margarita. "Oral History Questionnaire," in Gary Keller, Curricular Resources in Chicano Studies. Tempe: Bilingual Review Press, 1990, p. 39-41.

Oral History Association. "Oral History Evaluation Guidelines," Los Angeles: Oral History Association, 1990.