Whose Truth Is True?

2020 ◽  
pp. 307-319
Author(s):  
Mpho Ngoepe
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Historical Information ◽  
Oral Testimony ◽  
Historical Truth ◽  
Archival Principles

African societies use memory to store valuable historical information. This memory is passed from generation to generation through oral history. This method uses oral testimony, oral tradition, and, to some extent, archival sources for evidence. This memory is in danger of being obliterated as the historical truth is not directly accessible, or, in some instances, the truth can be distorted to suit the griot. While traditional archival principles such as archival diplomatics are used to authenticate records, oral history is often characterised by deliberate distortion of facts. This chapter explores the use of archival principles to authenticate oral history. It was established that some elements of archival principles can be used to authenticate oral history. Written records and oral history can complement each other to provide the ‘whole truth'. It is concluded that oral history fits the description of a record. The griot is no different from any medium of a record and is as reliable as any other medium.

scholarly journals Parental support in sports development of Brazilian gymnasts participants in the Olympic Games (1980-2004)

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-118
Author(s):  
Laurita Marconi SCHIAVON ◽  
Daniela Bento SOARES
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Parental Support ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Sports Performance ◽  
Oral Testimony ◽  
The Subject ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Olympic Games

Abstract Sports development involves important aspects that collaborate towards the achievement of a high level sports performance. Parental support is one such fact to be considered in Long Term Athlete Development (LTAD), capable of benefiting or harming athletes if not adequately administered. This study registers and discusses the importance of parental support in female Artistic Gymnastics, from the perspective of Brazilian gymnasts who have participated in the Olympic Games. The method used was Oral History with the technique known as oral testimony. The participants of the study were the ten Brazilian gymnasts who represented Brazil in the Olympic Games from when the country first participated in this championship, in 1980, up to the best Brazilian classification in Athens (2004), totaling ten gymnasts (a sample comprising 100% or the research universe). Testimony analysis was conducted through crossanalysis. The study shows unanimity among the gymnasts in regards to the importance of parental support in the sports development process. In addition to reinforcing the results found in the literature, the testimonies provide details of the relationships between the gymnasts and their families for deeper reflections around the subject, a distinguishing feature of studies with oral testimonies.

Evidence on the Use of Oxen in the Postbellum South

1998 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin A. Garrett
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Historical Information ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
American Economy

Given the importance of draft animals—horses, mules, and oxen—in the development of the American economy, it is surprising how little attention has been paid to their contribution. Moreover, this is not, in most cases, attributable to a lack of empirical evidence; the vast majority of the work on draft animals to date is found in oral history and folklore literature. While this literature delighted in presenting the sentiments and personal stories of a few rather than attempting to provide a broader perspective, it does provide valuable historical information. Not surprisingly, however, the sentiments of a few, perhaps sometimes embellished, occasionally led to conclusions that are not consistent with predictions. For example, recent evidence supports the superiority of mules over horses and oxen in southern agricultural production, which refutes the notion that southerners used the mule for cultural reasons (Garrett 1990; Kauffman 1993). As Rockoff (1991: 243) states, “One of the main functions of the economic historian, from the point of view of economics, is to examine the foundation of these myths.”

Spatial and architectural memory in oral histories of working life

Hot Metal ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Adams Stein
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Memory ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Industrial Site ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
Spatial Environment ◽  
Oral Testimony ◽  
History Narratives ◽  
Space Architecture

This chapter recovers the architectural and spatial qualities of so-called ‘ordinary’ factory buildings. Focusing on the modern building that housed the Gov, it explores spatial and architectural memory through an integration of archival research, oral testimony and photographs. This examination is informed by an awareness of how the oral history process contributes to a co-construction of spatial memory, developing between the interviewee and interviewer. Focusing on the built heritage of an industrial site can tell us only limited things about labour, technology and working life, and without oral history narratives, archives and photographs, the remnant built heritage can be historically misleading. Given this book’s broad argument that one can do both – that is, explore material and embodied histories and human stories of working life – it is necessary to consider closely the physical and spatial environment in which the print-workers laboured. This chapter is about those matters of place, space, architecture and embodied experience.

Rethinking Oral History and Oral Tradition: An Indigenous Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-185
Author(s):  
Amy Starecheski
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Indigenous Perspective

Climatology: Methods

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon E. Nicholson
Keyword(s):  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Meteorological Data ◽  
Climate Reconstruction ◽  
Biological Information ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Historical Information ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
Climatic Record ◽  
Government Records ◽  
Types Of Information

Environmental constraints have large impacts on populations, especially in semi-arid regions such as Africa. Climate and weather have long affected African societies, but unfortunately the traditional climatic record for the continent is relatively short. For that reason, historical information has often been used to reconstruct climate of the past. Sources of historical information include reports and diaries of explorers, settlers, and missionaries; government records; reports of scientific expeditions; and historical geographical and meteorological journals. Local oral tradition is also useful. It is reported in the form of historical chronicles compiled centuries later. References to famine and drought, economic conditions, floods, agriculture, weather events, and the season cycle are examples of useful types of information. Some of the records also include meteorological measurements. More recently chemical and biological information, generally derived from lake cores, has been applied to historical climate reconstruction. Early works provided in most cases qualitative, discontinuous information, such as drought chronologies. However, a statistical method of climate reconstruction applied to a vast collection of historical information and meteorological data allowed for the creation of a two-century, semi-quantitative “precipitation” data set. It consists of annual indices related to rainfall since 1800 for ninety regions of the African continent. This data set has served to illustrate several 19th-century periods of anomalous rainfall conditions that affected nearly the entire continent. An example is widespread aridity during several decades early in that century.

scholarly journals Canadian Architectural Archives at the University of Calgary Libraries

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 63-70
Author(s):  
Annalise K. Walker
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
Original Order ◽  
University Of Calgary ◽  
The University ◽  
Archival Principles

The Canadian Architectural Archives at the University of Calgary Libraries were established in 1974; first major collections were donated in 1975 and, by 1983, the Archives has grown significantly. Collections consist mostly of drawings, file material and photographs, with some models. The purpose of the Archives is support of study and research and preservation of documents. Major collections include those of John B. Parkin Associates, Arthur Erickson, and Ron Thorn, as well as other large collections from the Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver area. Organization of collections is based on archival principles of original order and provenance, and access to individual building projects is facilitated through various indices and inventories. An Oral History programme provides some additional biographical background. With a few exceptions, all materials are accessible for research in the Archives reader area; limited research assistance can be given to persons from out of town or out of province. Copies of individual items can be provided for research, exhibition or publication under strict copyright regulations.

Oral History and the Oral Tradition of Black America: The Kinte Foundation

1973 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-28
Author(s):  
C. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Black America

scholarly journals HISTÓRIA ORAL E FOLKCOMUNICAÇÃO: em busca de uma abordagem interdisciplinar na Festa do Divino Espírito Santo de Natividade –Tocantins

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 380
Author(s):  
Marina Haizenreder Ertzogue ◽  
Poliana Macedo de Sousa
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Espírito Santo ◽  
Theoretical Support ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
Espirito Santo ◽  
Religious Elements ◽  
Support Research

Resumo: Este artigo busca compreender os aspectos comunicacionais dos elementos religiosos da Festa do Divino Espírito Santo de Natividade – Tocantins, além de trazer da memória do grupo participante dessa manifestação algo mais antigo e que tenha relação entre a produção dos saberes e a ocupação dos espaços por grupos sociais que buscam assegurar a reprodução de suas marcas identitárias, utilizando o campo da folkcomunicação e da história oral como referencial metodológico e suporte teórico. A pesquisa é participante, na qual aplicamos a vertente da tradição oral, com entrevistas e observação, como método que dá suporte à interdisciplinaridade. Com isso, percebemos que será pelos processos históricos de produção, reprodução e negociação dessas memórias e identidades religiosas que percebemos a importância da perspectiva da metodologia da História Oral e da Folkcomunicação para prover a abordagem interdisciplinar que a pesquisa necessita.  Palavras-chave: História Oral; Folkcomunicação; Festas religiosas; Divino Espírito Santo; Natividade. ORAL HISTORY AND FOLKCOMUNICATION: in search of an interdisciplinary approach in the Divine Spirit Festival of Holy Nativity -Tocantins Abstract: This article find to understand the communicational aspects of the religious elements of the Divine Spirit Festival of Holy Natividade - Tocantins, and bring the memory of the group participating in this event something older and has relationship between the production of knowledge and the occupation of spaces for groups social seeking to ensure the reproduction of their identity marks, using the field of folk communication and oral history as methodological framework and theoretical support. Research is participator in that we apply the slope of the oral tradition, with interviews and observation as a method that supports interdisciplinarity. With this, we realize that is the historical processes of production, reproduction and negotiation of these memories and religious identities that we realize the importance of the perspective of the methodology of oral history and folk communication to provide an interdisciplinary approach to research needs. Keywords: Oral History; folkcommunication; Religious Holidays; Pentecost; Natividade. LA HISTORIA ORAL Y LA FOLKCOMUNICACIÓN: en busca de un enfoque interdisciplinario para la Fiesta del Espíritu Santo Natividad -Tocantins Resumen: En este artículo se busca entender los aspectos comunicacionales de los elementos religiosos de la Fiesta del Espíritu Santo de la Natividad - Tocantins, y llevar la memoria del grupo participante, en este caso, algo más antiguo, y tiene relación entre la producción de conocimiento y la ocupación de espacios para grupos búsqueda social para garantizar la reproducción de sus señas de identidad, utilizando el campo de la folkcomunicación y la historia oral como marco metodológico y apoyo teórico. La investigación está participando en la cual aplicamos la pendiente de la tradición oral, con entrevistas y la observación como un método que es compatible con la interdisciplinariedad. Con esto, nos damos cuenta de que son los procesos históricos de producción, reproducción y negociación de estas memorias e identidades religiosas que nos damos cuenta de la importancia de la perspectiva de la metodología de la historia oral y la comunicación popular para proporcionar un enfoque interdisciplinario para investigar las necesidades. Palabras clave: Historia Oral; la comunicación popular; Fiestas religiosas; Espíritu Santo; Natividad.

scholarly journals EXUMAÇÃO DA HISTÓRIA: A TRADIÇÃO ORAL EM PESQUISAS COM RELATOS DE EXPERIÊNCIA QUILOMBOLA

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (46) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Filogênio De Paula Junior ◽  
Cesar Romero Amaral Vieira ◽  
Márcia Cristina Américo ◽  
Viviane Marinho Luiz
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
School Education ◽  
Post Graduate ◽  
Education School ◽  
Political Project

ResumoEste artigo apresenta um estudo sobre tradição, transmissão e educação, a partir de duas pesquisas desenvolvidas no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba sobre uma mesma comunidade quilombola do Vale do Ribeira (SP). A partir de uma reflexão fundamentada na história oral, buscamos compreender o projeto político-educacional e comunitário do Quilombo Ivaporunduva, tentando entender os mecanismos de inserção da educação escolarizada, levando em conta a preservação dos saberes existentes, oriundos de tradições seculares que identificam as pessoas com seu grupo social. Palavras chave: Quilombo Ivaporunduva. Oralidade. Memória coletiva. Educação. Escola.  EXHUMATION OF HISTORY: THE ORAL TRADITION IN RESEARCHES WITH THE QUILOMBOLA EXPERIENCE NARRATIVES Abstract This article aims to present a reflection about tradition, transmission and education, from  two research developed at Post- Graduate Program in Education of the Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba,about of quilombola community of Vale do Ribeira, SP. Starting from a reflection based on oral history, this article aims to understand the educational  and communitarian political project of Quilombo Ivaporunduva. The challenge was attempt to understand the insertion mechanisms of school education along with this traditional community, considering tha preservation of existing knowledge, derived from secular traditions that identify people by their social group. Keywords: Quilombo Ivaporunduva. Orality, Collective Memory, Education, School

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