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Relacje oral history jako obiekty archiwalne

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Żeglińska A.

Archiwa – Kancelarie – Zbiory

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2011

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issue 2(4)

s. 145 - 154

EN

Oral history is of interest to various cultural institutions - museums, libraries, archives, research institutes. Depending on these institutions' activity profiles, oral history are treated differently and take different places in their collections and holdings. Since many documents about the life and activity of the Polish society went missing as a result of the Second World War and the post-war political system (censorship, destruction of 'inconvenient' files), oral history can be a valuable supplementary source. Despite constant development of technology and increasingly sophisticated methods of sound and image recording, oral testimonies are considered only supplementary material, not of equal value to other collected sources. The existing resources all need to be arranged and classified, and exchange of information and experience, not only within a single archival network but amongst all interested institutions, should be made possible. The purpose of this article is to put together a list of problems related to oral testimonies in all the archives which collect or may collect them.

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Relacje oral history są przedmiotem zainteresowania różnych placówek kulturalnych – muzeów, bibliotek, archiwów, instytutów naukowych. Zależnie od profilu działalności, odmiennie są w tych instytucjach traktowane i różne w nich znajdują miejsce. Wobec braku akt dokumentujących wiele przejawów życia i działalności społeczeństwa polskiego, spowodowanego wydarzeniami wojennymi czy też powojennymi czynnikami ustrojowymi (cenzura, likwidowanie dokumentów „niewygodnych”), mogą stać się wartościowymi źródłami uzupełniającymi. Mimo nieustającego rozwoju techniki i coraz doskonalszych metod zapisu dźwięku i obrazu – relacje oral history uważane są za materiał uzupełniający, a nie równorzędną formę gromadzonych zasobów. Istniejące zasoby wymagają jednolitego uporządkowania i opracowania oraz wymiany informacji i doświadczeń nie tylko w ramach jednej sieci archiwalnej, ale również między zainteresowanymi placówkami. Celem artykułu jest wskazanie katalogu problemów związanych z istnieniem relacji oral history we wszelkich archiwach gromadzących lub mogących je gromadzić.

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Oral Tradition and Oral History in Iceland from Settlement to Present Day

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Jóhönnudóttir M.

Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej

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2016

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vol. 6

121-128

PL

The paper gives a short look at the development of the oral tradition in Iceland, where passing the laws and knowledge about the past events verbally from one generation to the other was a crucial way to preserve tradition and identity of the nation since the beginnings. The Author also presents how the approach to the oral history method in Iceland changed in the past few decades. It becomes more and more popular among scholars and society in general, especially since the Center for Oral History was established in Reykjavík in 2007. In the article one can read about the latest oral history projects, concerning among others ethnic and sexual minorities in Iceland, and the specificity of Icelandic approach to oral history method.

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Lynn Abrams, Oral History Theory

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Kurkowska-Budzan M.

Rocznik Antropologii Historii

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2012

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issue 1(2)

371–372

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Book review of Lynn Abrams "Oral History Theory", Routledge, London & New York 2010, ss. 214.

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Oral history we współczesnej Polsce – badania, projekty, stowarzyszenia

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Lewandowska I.

Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej

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2011

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vol. 1

81-103

EN

This text shows changes in the way oral history has been perceived in the last 10 years in Poland, what projects are being conducted at the moment and where research on this subject is going. Contemporary research in oral history has taken a few directions. First, this method is treated as a source prompted by historians and used in by them in research activity. Second, an interest taken in this method is manifested in methodological and historiographic reflection. The third group is research on archiving audio-visual documents. Another area of interest for oral history is widely understood education and popularization of this method. In Poland there are a few serious institutions/centrers that focus their research and work methods on oral form of information, such as Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe (National Digital Archive) and Centrum Edukacji Obywatelskiej (Center for Civic Education). Widely available are internet sources such as „Uczyć się z historii” (“To Learn from History”) and „Świadkowie Historii” (“Witnesses to History”), which gather oral evidence from people all over Poland. The article discusses also activities of the KARTA Center from Wrocław, “Brama Grodzka – Teatr NN” (Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre) Center and Studio Historii Mówionej (Oral History Center) from Lublin. The Memory and Future Institute from Wrocław is a thriving institution as well. An analysis has also been made of initiatives taken by circles in Olsztyn, Łódź, and at the Auschwitz-Birke-nau Museum. In 2009 the first in Poland Oral History Society was founded (Towarzystwo Historii Mówionej). This was possible thanks to institutions that are growing and becoming more and more active, and also because of academics who take interest in this kind of research. Every year the Society organizes nationwide conferences. Also other academic centers and societies organize conferences and meetings devoted to the culture of memory and oral history.

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This text shows changes in the way oral history has been perceived in the last 10 years in Poland, what projects are being conducted at the moment and where research on this subject is going. Contemporary research in oral history has taken a few directions. First, this method is treated as a source prompted by historians and used in by them in research activity. Second, an interest taken in this method is manifested in methodological and historiographic reflection. The third group is research on archiving audio-visual documents. Another area of interest for oral history is widely understood education and popularization of this method. In Poland there are a few serious institutions/centrers that focus their research and work methods on oral form of information, such as Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe (National Digital Archive) and Centrum Edukacji Obywatelskiej (Center for Civic Education). Widely available are internet sources such as „Uczyć się z historii” (“To Learn from History”) and „Świadkowie Historii” (“Witnesses to History”), which gather oral evidence from people all over Poland. The article discusses also activities of the KARTA Center from Wrocław, “Brama Grodzka – Teatr NN” (Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre) Center and Studio Historii Mówionej (Oral History Center) from Lublin. The Memory and Future Institute from Wrocław is a thriving institution as well. An analysis has also been made of initiatives taken by circles in Olsztyn, Łódź, and at the Auschwitz-Birke-nau Museum. In 2009 the first in Poland Oral History Society was founded (Towarzystwo Historii Mówionej). This was possible thanks to institutions that are growing and becoming more and more active, and also because of academics who take interest in this kind of research. Every year the Society organizes nationwide conferences. Also other academic centers and societies organize conferences and meetings devoted to the culture of memory and oral history.

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Czeska oral history w perspektywie globalnej. Podobieństwa i różnice

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Vaněk M.

Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej

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2013

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vol. 3

161-173

EN

The article aims to highlight the specific route of Czech oral history in comparison with developed countries, where oral history has been an age-old tradition. Czech oral history, same as oral history in other so called post-communist countries, did not experience that with oral history in 1960s and 1970s, oral history was totally unknown in the then Czechoslovakia (as well as in other countries of the so called socialist block). In the Czech Republic, oral history was used in the mid-1990s for the first time; but it took much more time before it stopped being ignored and criticized. Boom of oral history started in the end of 1990s, same like in South America or South Africa, and of course at the post-communist countries. An increased interest in oral history, however, also brings along some problems and risks related with this new trend. I will examine some cases of journalistic work which passes itself off as oral history and which is often ideologically motivated. Mastering the method and a good knowledge of the historical context are, in my opinion, essential requirements for a valid historical interpretation, and lack of these can be crucial.

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The article aims to highlight the specific route of Czech oral history in comparison with developed countries, where oral history has been an age-old tradition. Czech oral history, same as oral history in other so called post-communist countries, did not experience that with oral history in 1960s and 1970s, oral history was totally unknown in the then Czechoslovakia (as well as in other countries of the so called socialist block). In the Czech Republic, oral history was used in the mid-1990s for the first time; but it took much more time before it stopped being ignored and criticized. Boom of oral history started in the end of 1990s, same like in South America or South Africa, and of course at the post-communist countries. An increased interest in oral history, however, also brings along some problems and risks related with this new trend. I will examine some cases of journalistic work which passes itself off as oral history and which is often ideologically motivated. Mastering the method and a good knowledge of the historical context are, in my opinion, essential requirements for a valid historical interpretation, and lack of these can be crucial.

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Wangel Durlow, Z Grecji do Polski

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Kurpiel A.

Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej

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2012

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vol. 2

125-152

EN

Wangel Durlow is one of 7.5 thousand Aegean Macedonians that came to Poland as a result of the Greek civil war. In his narration he mostly recounts events related to the war and mandatory resettlement from his hometown in Northern Greece seen from the child’s perspective – Mr. Durlow was 12 when he left Greece. His account provides us with information on daily life and customs of the Macedonians living in Greece, difficult beginning of his stay in Poland resulting from cultural and civilization differences between Poland and Greece as well as education and upbringing of Greek children in Poland. Despite pleas of his parents, who settled in Yugoslavia after the Greek civil war, he has not decided to leave Poland where he graduated from school and married a Polish woman. There is a long description of the first meeting with his parents which took place only after 16 years of separation. The account of travels to Yugoslavia again emphasizes cultural differences between Poland Macedonia, especially the relation of the wife of Mr. Durlow with his parents. In spite of the fact that the story of Wangel Durlow touches upon difficult and sometimes traumatic matters, he is recounting it with a sense of humor and has perspective towards it; he is emphasizing the influence of kind-hearted people – Polish teachers, his parents-in-law, who many times helped him to handle unfamiliar Polish reality.

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O relacjach byłych więźniów kacetów w kontekście czasu, miejsca i sytuacji ich powstania (albo o pożytkach z historii mówionej)

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Filipkowski P.

Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej

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2012

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vol. 2

37-71

EN

One of the main objections against oral history interviews is their retrospective character – the distance from the time of events which are covered by the interviews. While it is not the distance itself that is the issue but its deforming potential: the susceptibility of memory to later, in relation to the discussed events, influences. Another issue is the influence of an interview situation itself, relation between the person documenting interview / the researcher and the so-called witness to history. The text starts with those theoretical and methodological questions and considers them on the example of concrete, empirical material. The material is the so-called representations of former Auschwitz prisoners gathered through decades by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum as well as biographic and narrative interviews with the same people recorded in years 2002–2003 for the Mauthausen Survivors Documentation Project and archived in the Oral History Archive of the Karta Center and the History Meeting House. Thorough comparison of both accounts from the same person delivered orally at a different time, place and in a different context (biographic, social, historical) conducted by different institutions and on the basis of different methodologies allows one to analyze the influence of different contexts on the content of the stories told. The effect of those analyses is a new picture of dependencies between the memory of experience of there and then and the entanglement of stories of this experience with the here and now reality. This picture seems quite distant both from naive realism as well as – although today it may seem quite surprising – from extreme constructivism. Analyzed accounts prove to be quite stable and resistant to the lapse of time as well as the current context of an interview situation. In this last regard, on the basis of analyzed sources, one can formulate some methodological postulates related to its impact.

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One of the main objections against oral history interviews is their retrospective character – the distance from the time of events which are covered by the interviews. While it is not the distance itself that is the issue but its deforming potential: the susceptibility of memory to later, in relation to the discussed events, influences. Another issue is the influence of an interview situation itself, relation between the person documenting interview / the researcher and the so-called witness to history. The text starts with those theoretical and methodological questions and considers them on the example of concrete, empirical material. The material is the so-called representations of former Auschwitz prisoners gathered through decades by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum as well as biographic and narrative interviews with the same people recorded in years 2002–2003 for the Mauthausen Survivors Documentation Project and archived in the Oral History Archive of the Karta Center and the History Meeting House. Thorough comparison of both accounts from the same person delivered orally at a different time, place and in a different context (biographic, social, historical) conducted by different institutions and on the basis of different methodologies allows one to analyze the influence of different contexts on the content of the stories told. The effect of those analyses is a new picture of dependencies between the memory of experience of there and then and the entanglement of stories of this experience with the here and now reality. This picture seems quite distant both from naive realism as well as – although today it may seem quite surprising – from extreme constructivism. Analyzed accounts prove to be quite stable and resistant to the lapse of time as well as the current context of an interview situation. In this last regard, on the basis of analyzed sources, one can formulate some methodological postulates related to its impact.

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Historia mówiona – próba definicji pojęcia

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Kierzkowski M.

Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej

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2014

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vol. 4

5-19

EN

In the following article, taking into account the difficulties in defining the concept of oral history, I would like to propose a multifaceted approach to the problem. Instead of trying to define the main issue in a traditional, explicit way, I will try to define it from different perspectives. In this way I would like to prove that oral history and its complex construction cannot be defined in a short and explicit way and the multitude of existing definitions lead to chaos and some kind of reduction. My way of defining, which focuses on highlighting significant characteristics and all the necessary elements, is supposed to overcome the previous limitations. Instead of one definition, I present several subsequent formulations, which result from the multifaceted construction of this research practice.

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„Słuchajcie, co wam teraz powiem…”, Obsługiwałem angielskiego króla Bohumila Hrabala – fikcja literacka a „historia opowiadana”

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Uczkiewicz-Styś K.

Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej

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2012

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vol. 2

73-100

EN

Oral history accounts area natural object of research for anthropologists, sociologists, researchers of cultural studies, ethnologists, as well as psychologists engaged in memory studies. As narratives of experience they became the antipositivist rebellion against the monopoly of major historical narratives that, according to the reflection of the second half of the 20th century, were supposed to lead to the catastrophes of war and genocide. In historiographic research the questioned positivist discourse based on the corresponding theory of the truth has become counterbalanced by the discourse of memory. As a consequence, also in historical research there is noticeable appreciation for other, non-classic, forms of historical narratives which include oral history accounts. What can a researcher of literary fiction contribute to reflections on oral history whose greatest value should be authenticity, this “truth of experience”? To what extent can literary texts in the convention of a narrative of appeal, first-person narrative, monologue (in which crucial roles are played by dialogue, orality and rhetoric of the text) be read in the perspective of oral history? When analyzing I Served the King of England novel by Bohumil Hrabal – author who by default rejects ‘the macrocosm’, the world of great politics, historical necessities, social processes, for the world of microcosm, i.e. a life of each person and what is more, he rejects any need for psychological or sociological (or any other) analysis of this microcosm – one can notice that the dichotomy of literary fiction and the authentic experience of oral history is not that obvious as it may seem. Categories of text, narration and memory, although analyzed from different research perspectives, are common for both forms.

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Oral history accounts area natural object of research for anthropologists, sociologists, researchers of cultural studies, ethnologists, as well as psychologists engaged in memory studies. As narratives of experience they became the antipositivist rebellion against the monopoly of major historical narratives that, according to the reflection of the second half of the 20th century, were supposed to lead to the catastrophes of war and genocide. In historiographic research the questioned positivist discourse based on the corresponding theory of the truth has become counterbalanced by the discourse of memory. As a consequence, also in historical research there is noticeable appreciation for other, non-classic, forms of historical narratives which include oral history accounts. What can a researcher of literary fiction contribute to reflections on oral history whose greatest value should be authenticity, this “truth of experience”? To what extent can literary texts in the convention of a narrative of appeal, first-person narrative, monologue (in which crucial roles are played by dialogue, orality and rhetoric of the text) be read in the perspective of oral history? When analyzing I Served the King of England novel by Bohumil Hrabal – author who by default rejects ‘the macrocosm’, the world of great politics, historical necessities, social processes, for the world of microcosm, i.e. a life of each person and what is more, he rejects any need for psychological or sociological (or any other) analysis of this microcosm – one can notice that the dichotomy of literary fiction and the authentic experience of oral history is not that obvious as it may seem. Categories of text, narration and memory, although analyzed from different research perspectives, are common for both forms.

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Podróż do Mezeritch. O doświadczeniu historii mówionej

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Stolarz A.

Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej

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2014

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vol. 4

71-88

EN

What makes oral history different from any other history research method is the fact that a historian is actively involved in gathering information about events from the past. A category of performance borrowed from anthropology and ethnology shows that not only may a researcher influence a person narrating their story (e.g. by asking particular questions), it is also the storyteller who may influence the researcher, both in an existential as well as an epistemological dimension. The article discusses the problem of oral history research experience on the basis of an interview that the author carried out with the eighty-three-year old Kazimierz on the topic of the history of Międzyrzec Podlaski. The author presents the influence this interview had on her practicing oral history method as well as the history itself in a wider context. A reflection on the experience of oral history understood as a kind of research intuition (J. Huizinga) and a form of experiencing a research situation (F. Ankersmit), allows for a closer look at the issue of a researchers’ self-awareness and as a result on factors influencing their way of gathering information and the process of constructing history narration.

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Amerykańscy archiwiści o oral history – przegląd tematyki tekstów publikowanych w drugiej połowie XX wieku na łamach „American Archivist”

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Wiśniewska M.

Archiwa – Kancelarie – Zbiory

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2015

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issue 6(8)

11-59

PL

Artykuł w swej pierwszej części zawiera szczegółowe omówienia osiemnastu tekstów dotyczących historii mówionej, opublikowanych w czołowym amerykańskim czasopiśmie archiwistycznym „American Archivist” w drugiej połowie XX wieku. Na drugą część składają się wnioski dotyczące obecności tematyki historii mówionej w dyskursie archiwistycznym w Stanach Zjednoczonych Ameryki Północnej w drugiej połowie XX wieku. Najwięcej miejsca poświęca się w analizowanych opracowaniach tematowi charakteru relacji oral history jako źródeł historycznych. Poruszana jest zwłaszcza kwestia wiarygodności historii mówionej oraz sposobów jej zapewnienia (m.in. przez odpowiedni opis). Ponadto w wielu przypadkach teksty te próbują przekonać historyków do wykorzystywania historii mówionej w badaniach. Można zauważyć również, że w pewnym momencie zmienia się rozumienie oral history jako źródła historycznego – właściwym źródłem staje się samo nagranie wywiadu, audio lub wideo, a nie notatki sporządzone w jego trakcie lub też jego transkrypcja. Ważne miejsce w rozważaniach amerykańskich autorów zajmują relacje między historią mówioną a dokumentacją tradycyjną (papierową). Z analizy artykułów wynika też, że autorzy zajmowali się przede wszystkim zagadnieniami natury historycznej, a w mniejszej mierze – archiwistycznej. Wśród tych drugich natomiast najczęściej pojawiają się tematy związane z udostępnianiem materiałów oral history. Poruszana jest jednak również kwestia miejsca archiwów i archiwisty w działalności związanej z nagrywaniem oral history. Całkowicie brak omówienia problemu przechowywania materiałów oral history.

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In its first part, the article consists of a detailed discussion on eighteen texts on oral history published in the second half of the 20th century in the leading American archival journal „The American Archivist”. The second part are conclusions concerning the presence of the subject of oral history in archival discourse in the United States in the latter half of the 20th century. In the analyzed texts a lot of space has been given to the character of oral history interviews as historical sources. Especially, the question of reliability of oral history has been raised, as well as ways of guaranteeing it (e.g. through a proper description). Moreover, in many cases these texts attempt to persuade their readers to use oral history in their research. Also, it may be noticed, that at some point the understanding of oral history as historical source changes – an audio or video recording of the interview becomes a source itself, and not notes made while carrying it out or its transcription. Also relations between oral history and traditional (paper) records are an important issue in discussions of the American authors. The analysis of the articles also indicates that the authors were interested more in issues of the historical nature, than of the archival one. Those latter are mostly providing access to oral history materials. But also the question of the role of archives and archivists in recording oral history is touched. Discussion on the issue of storing oral history is not present at all.

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Minevikufaktid ja minevikuesitused. Kusimus parimusliku ajaloo allikaspetsiifikast

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Tiiu J.

Mäetagused

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2014

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vol. 56

83-102

EN

In the article, three versions of presentation of the past: the oral presentation, its transcription from the tape, and the narrator’s comments and additions to the version transcribed from the tape, are compared from the standpoint of narrated history research. The question is to what extent the information that is interesting for narrated history research varies in the different versions of presentation of these memories. The analysis reveals that the transcribing of an oral presentation does not in itself change the interpretation of the past. The difference in information results from the aims of the interviewer and the interviewee. The narrator offers an emotional adventure story, in which he as the first-person character comes out as a winner. The interviewer-historian, however, places the narrator’s everyday life more precisely in the temporal and spatial framework. This analysis draws the researcher’s attention to the importance of interpersonal relationships when remembering historical events. From the point of narrated history research, more attention could be paid to how (new) conditions make people behave and how this in turn affects the internal life of the community. This way, interest in the specific historical event fades, but there is room for discussion on people’s behavioural patterns in certain periods of time.

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Making History from Everyday Life of Common People: The Oral History Studies in a Chinese Village

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Yuhua G.

Polish Sociological Review

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2009

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vol. 167

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issue 3

399-414

EN

Narratives of personal histories of “bitterness” told by peasants who refer to themselves as “suffering people” (shouku ren) occupy a significant place in oral accounts of rural life in China in the second half of the twentieth century. They constitute both an important academic resource and an independent field of knowledge production. The social dimensions of “suffering” establish an organic link between the everyday lives of ordinary people and broader social history, such that the deep roots of “suffering” can only be apprehended from the perspective of social structures and power relationships. Seeing the everyday practices of ordinary peasants as an integral part of “civilisation” links peasants’ life histories with the macro processes of social history. It gives the mundane, even trivial, experiences and accounts of peasants’ lives an extraordinary significance as organic components of the grand historical narrative.

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Postavenie žien vo vybraných obciach severného Slovenska. Reflexia využitia metódy oral history v kulturologickom výskume

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Chrenková P.

Národopisný věstník

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2007

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vol. 24_(66)

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issue 1

39-44

EN

The research project mostly concentrates on gender topic. I carry out research in three small mountainous villages in Northern Slovakia. I am interested in peasant people, especially women, and different aspects of their lives: Their life strategies (how they survive) in this mountainous part of Slovakia. I use the oral history method which has not been so common in Czech and Slovak research until now, but which is still one of frequently used qualitative methods. I decided to use this method because it is suitable for the aim of my project. I would like to record and preserve the remarkable stories of ordinary women’s lives in these villages. My intention is to prepare these data for further processing and analysis. I suppose that these stories would be a unique material for further studying and preservation of specific style of life which is slowly disappearing.

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Školské sestry sv. Františka za normalizace: mezi snahou uchovat identitu a zápasem o přežití

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Řičář Libánská A.

Historie – Otázky – Problémy (History, Issues, Problems)

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2022

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vol. 14

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issue 2

77-98

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This paper examines the strategies that enabled the nuns and their congregations to adapt to life and ministry under the Czechoslovak authoritarian regime, focusing on the less studied period of normalisation.

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Zítra se bude tančit všude, aneb jak jsme se protancovali ke svobodě : Dichotomie tzv. folklorního hnutí druhé poloviny 20. století

71%

Stavělová D.

Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)

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2017

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vol. 104

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issue 4

411-432

CS

Cílem příspěvku je vypořádat se s "folklórním revivalovým hnutím", tedy s činnostmi lidových souborů - široce rozšířeným fenoménem v bývalém socialistickém Československu (1848-1989), který má svou kontinuitu v dnešní České republice. Jedná se o interdisciplinární projekt založený na metodách orální historie, textové analýzy a antropologickém studiu hudby a tance, jehož cílem je prozkoumat rozmanitost tohoto fenoménu a jeho ideologické konotace. Vyšetřování vychází z příběhů, které se vyskytují v diskursu sociokulturního kontextu lidových souborů v různých obdobích tzv. Folklórního hnutí. Příběhy poskytují značný materiál, který je třeba interpretovat s cílem porozumět zvláštnostem fenoménu folklórního oživujícího hnutí v konkrétním sociokulturním a politickém kontextu. Cílem projektu je prozkoumat dvojznačnost fenoménu folklórního hnutí v českých zemích. Výzkum poskytne různé pohledy na to, do jaké míry je hnutí nástrojem moci a do jaké míry to byla příležitost k realizaci vlastních strategií.

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Podvod jako vážný problém světové vědy i aktuální české historiografie – poznámka k článku Jiřího Peška z ČČH 112, 2014, s. 497–511

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Volná K.

Český časopis historický (The Czech Historical Review)

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2015

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vol. 113

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issue 1

145-146

EN

The reaction to the paper of Jiří Pešek denies author’s assessment of the publication “JAREŠ, SPURNÝ, VOLNÁ: Náměstí Krasnoarmějců 2: Teachers and students of the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University in the period of normalization (1969-1989), Praha 2012” as methodologically incorrect and spinning the oral testimonies herein cited. His relegation of thepublication among the cases of evident scientific frauds by three sentences in a footnote only and without any detailed arguments appears to be unfair and malevolent.

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Parimuslik ajalugu – arengusuunad ja paralleelid

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Jaago T.

Mäetagused

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2014

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vol. 56

7-20

EN

Narrated history (pärimuslik ajalugu) as an independent research approach started to emerge in Estonian folkloristics in the 1990s. On the one hand, it was expectable, as narrating the past was significantly in the foreground in the 1980s–90s, due to the changes that society was undergoing. On the other hand, it was connected with the general development pattern in the 1970s-80s folkloristics, for example, in the emergence of context-centred folkloristics as well as interest in modern-day folklore and small-group folklore tradition. At the end of the 1990s contacts were established with fellow researchers from neighbouring countries, and collaboration with Latvian and Finnish researchers has proved most durable. Internationally, this line of research is associated with oral history research, and is, to some extent, also related with memory studies and life history research. This thematic publication is another step aiming to discuss the ongoing trends and investigations in the field of narrated/oral history in the abovementioned area of cooperation. In general, there are new topics (e.g., experience in being a representative of state authorities; researcher’s self-awareness as an interviewer) and also observations of earlier topics considering the present-day contexts (e.g., family traditions in the Internet era; experience of members of transnational families; modern possibilities for analysing materials recorded in the past). Focusing on the present day and interpersonal relationships is characteristic, as opposed to the past and the interpretation of past events. Among the theoretical aspects in the line of research, most often the developments of earlier standpoints are dealt with (for example, the change in the balance between the public and the private in modern society). This gives evidence of a new stage in research, leaving the discussions on the formation of this line of research (and other interrelated lines) into the 2000s.

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„Opowiem Ci ciekawą historię...” – o pożytku opowiadania historii przez uczestników i świadków wydarzeń dziejowych

71%

Klimczak E.

Historia i Polityka

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2016

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issue 17(24)

41-54

PL

Oral history jest coraz bardziej popularną metodą zdobywania wiedzy o przeszłości. Poza tym przynosi liczne korzyści jej użytkownikom. Zauważmy, że w centrum zainteresowania stawia człowieka, zwyczajnego człowieka wraz z jego przeżyciami i emocjami. Mówienie i słuchanie o uczuciach może pomóc obu stronom w znalezieniu drogi do dialogu oraz wzajemnego zrozumienia. Jest to szczególnie ważne w sytuacjach konfliktowych oraz traumatycznych epizodach historii.

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Konflikt dvojí vojenské loajality ve zkušenosti základní vojenské služby a pozdějších militárních aktivit

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Wohlmuth P.

Národopisný věstník

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2020

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vol. 37_(79)

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issue 2

27-43

EN

This treatise presents the interpretative research on newly created sources which emerged from oral-historical interviews with protagonists from an association of military re-enactment of diverse conflicts from the 18th through 20th centuries, which are active primarily in the Czech Republic, but also in Central Europe, and also with a relating group of narrators who serve in the Czech Army´s Active Reserve. The vast majority of research on military re-enactment focusses on the research into three interconnected problems of authenticity, historical authority, and reflexivity self-consciousness). However, this text focusses newly on the problem of loyalty. Interviews are aimed at the experience of this specific group of narrators with their military service, performed at the time of normalization and transformation after 1989, especially in relation to the issue of ambivalent loyalty to the political regime for which they took an oath during their military service. This experience is analysed in relation to non-contradictory and strong loyalty, felt to the experienced and performed values, which were perceived as being key values for historical military cultures of a specific re-enactment period or conflict, by which the participants express their loyalty through similar rituals of a military oath. The key research question is how this loyalty, experienced in relation to historical military culture (at one sub-group of narrators even interconnected with their membership in the Active Reserve), relates, in a conflicting way, to the loyalty which was required to the former Czechoslovak People´s Army, or to later forces of democratic Czechoslovakia and then of the Czech Republic, during compulsory military service performed by the narrators.

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