Memory, Oral History and the End of Slavery in Tanzania: Some Methodological Considerations

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan-Georg Deutsch
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Archival Record ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Methodological Considerations

This chapter explores how the end of slavery is remembered in Tanzania. While the subject of ‘The end of slavery in Africa’ has attracted a substantial number of outstanding scholars, few researchers have conducted oral interviews, especially in East Africa. The author undertook field research, collecting contemporary memories of the end of slavery over a period of three months in the mid-1990s in various parts of Tanzania. The interviews were meant to complement archival research. The chapter shows that the memory of the end of slavery and the archival record fail to correspond with each other, and offers an explanation of why this is the case.

Engaging the Contested Memory of the Public Square

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Reiser Robbins ◽  
Mark W. Robbins
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Public Memory ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Square ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Engaged Anthropology

There is a well-established call for more attention to contested and dissonant cultural heritage in the public memory of historic places, particularly in attending to ethnic, class, and gendered experiences. Although hailing the contributions made to date, critics have also observed that the results have tended to be confined to symbolic or rhetorical effects. Utilizing the insights of engaged anthropology, we examine the potential of a community-engaged, collaborative research design that integrates oral history, archaeology, and archival research as a means of building a polyvocal public memory. The study is carried out “in place” at a long-sacred public plaza that has been the subject of interpretive controversy for many decades. We suggest that the combination of oral history and archaeological methodologies, carried out simultaneously and on-site with the community, enables an interplay of material, spatial, and discursive perspectives that moves contested cultural heritage from “narrative to action.”

Gentrification and functional change in Budapest – ‘ruin bars’ and the commodification of housing in a post-socialist context

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-26
Author(s):  
Gergely Olt ◽  
Adrienne Csizmady
Keyword(s):  
Ownership Structure ◽  
Hospitality Industry ◽  
Housing Stock ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Functional Change ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Heritage Buildings ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality Industry ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality

AbstractThe growth of the tourism and hospitality industry played an important role in the gentrification of the post-socialist city of Budapest. Although disinvestment was present, reinvestment was moderate for decades after 1989. Privatisation of individual tenancies and the consequent fragmented ownership structure of heritage buildings made refurbishment and reinvestment less profitable. Because of local contextual factors and global changes in consumption habits, the function of the dilapidated 19th century housing stock transformed in the 2000s, and the residential neighbourhood which was the subject of the research turned into the so called ‘party district’. The process was followed in our ongoing field research. The functional change made possible speculative investment in inner city housing and played a major role in the commodification of the disinvested housing stock.

Spiritual Warfare 101: Preparing the Student for Christian Battle

2009 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Stambach
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Religious Conflict ◽  
Spiritual Warfare ◽  
Western Kenya ◽  
American Missionaries ◽  
College Course ◽  
Key Concepts

AbstractTaking its subtitle from a theological college course description, this paper examines the intersections of theological and anthropological ideas of culture, as seen through the eyes of Kenyan evangelists and American missionaries. One of the key concepts developed in the course, and in the broader program of this U.S.-funded nondenominational church in East Africa, is that understanding culture is key to learning and unlocking the spiritual 'personalities' (both godly and satanic) involved in spiritual warfare. Both Kenyans and Americans conceive of warfare as the struggle between secular and Christian worldviews and consider education to be one of the strongest weapons needed to win the battle. However, where U.S. teachers focus on animism and world-religious conflict as evidence of lingering immorality and ungodliness, Kenyans focus on American ethnocentrism and xenophobia as evidence of ongoing cultural misunderstandings and injustice. Analysis is based on examination of mission records and on field research conducted in Nairobi and western Kenya.

Working Through Colonial Collections

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margareta von Oswald
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Everyday Activity ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Working Through ◽  
German Colonialism ◽  
Oral History Interviews

What are the possibilities and limits of engaging with colonialism in ethnological museums? This book addresses this question from within the Africa department of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. It captures the Museum at a moment of substantial transformation, as it prepared the move of its exhibition to the Humboldt Forum, a newly built and contested cultural centre on Berlin’s Museum Island. The book discusses almost a decade of debate in which German colonialism was negotiated, and further recognised, through conflicts over colonial museum collections. Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork examining the Museum’s various work practices, this book highlights the Museum’s embeddedness in colonial logics and shows how these unfold in the Museum’s everyday activity. It addresses the diverse areas of expertise in the Ethnological Museum – the preservation, storage, curation, and research of collections – and also draws on archival research and oral history interviews with current and former employees. Working through Colonial Collections unravels the ongoing and laborious processes of reckoning with colonialism in the Ethnological Museum’s present – processes from which other ethnological museums, as well as Western museums more generally, can learn.

Who's Talking/Who's Talking Back? The Subject of Personal NarrativeTelling Lies in Modern American Autobiography. Timothy Dow AdamsJessie Bernard: The Making of a Feminist. Robert C. BannisterRevealing Lives: Autobiography, Biography, and Gender. Susan Groag Bell , Marilyn YalomSadie Brower Neakok: An Inupiaq Woman. Margaret B. BlackmanBlack Women Writing Autobiography. Joanne M. BraxtonWinged Words: American Indian Writers Speak. Laura ColtelliCrested Kimono: Power and Love in the Japanese Business Family. Matthews Masayuki HamabataThanks to God and the Revolution: The Oral History of a Nicaraguan Family. Dianne Walta HartDorothy Healey Remembers: A Life in the American Communist Party. Dorothy Healey , Maurice IssermanAutobiographical Tightropes: Simone de Beauvoir, Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, Monique Wittig and Maryse Conde. Leah D. HewittLife Stories of the Nicaraguan Revolution. Denis Lynn Daly HeyckTish Sommers, Activist, and the Founding of the Older Women's League. Patricia HuckleAll Sides of the Subject: Women and Biography. Teresa IlesAutobiographical Voices: Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture. Françoise LionnetBoomer: Railroad Memoirs. Linda NiemannChildhood, Culture and Class in Britain: Margaret McMillan, 1860-1931. Carolyn SteedmanKate Chopin. Emily Toth

Signs ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 392-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sidonie Smith
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Marguerite Duras ◽  
Nathalie Sarraute ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
Monique Wittig ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Nicaraguan Revolution ◽  
Business Family

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.

Strategic Miscalculation

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Stewart
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Suez Canal ◽  
Military Officers ◽  
Vital Importance ◽  
Compelling Argument ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Potential Challenge ◽  
And Training

This chapter discusses how there was a good deal of confusion about what strategy to follow in defending East Africa. The thinking of the few politicians interested in the subject, and within the regional governments, was flawed, with the dangers misunderstood or overlooked. Successive British governments showed no real sense of recognizing that this could be an important wartime hub for raw materials and training. These significant failings were compounded by the failure of senior military officers to make a compelling argument about Italian intentions and the potential challenge these presented. While the Chiefs of Staff in London were right to assume that Mussolini would focus on Egypt, due to the vital importance attached to controlling the Suez Canal, they were wrong to conclude that he would enter the war at the first opportunity.

scholarly journals Methodological Challenges in Studying Trust in Natural Resources Management

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 1303
Author(s):  
Antonia Sohns ◽  
Gordon M. Hickey ◽  
Jasper R. de Vries ◽  
Owen Temby
Keyword(s):  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Natural Resources Management ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Participatory Approaches ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Central Characteristic ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Methodological Considerations ◽  
And Control

Trust has been identified as a central characteristic of successful natural resource management (NRM), particularly in the context of implementing participatory approaches to stakeholder engagement. Trust is, however, a multi-dimensional and multi-level concept that is known to evolve recursively through time, challenging efforts to empirically measure its impact on collaboration in different NRM settings. In this communication we identify some of the challenges associated with conceptualizing and operationalizing trust in NRM field research, and pay particular attention to the inter-relationships between the concepts of trust, perceived risk and control due to their multi-dimensional and interacting roles in inter-organizational collaboration. The challenge of studying trust begins with its conceptualization, which impacts the terminology being used, thereby affecting the subsequent operationalization of trust in survey and interview measures, and the interpretation of these measures by engaged stakeholders. Building from this understanding, we highlight some of the key methodological considerations, including how trust is being conceptualized and how the associated measures are being developed, deployed, and validated in order to facilitate cross-context and cross-level comparisons. Until these key methodological issues are overcome, the nuanced roles of trust in NRM will remain unclear.

scholarly journals A vivência da morte pela equipe de saúde que atua no setor de oncologia

Bionorte ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-19
Author(s):  
Jacina Santos Dias ◽  
Woochiton Ramos Lopes Pereira ◽  
Leonardo Augusto Couto Finelli
Keyword(s):  
Health Professionals ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Death Process ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Continuous Training ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Professional Qualification ◽  
Health Team ◽  
Intervention Models ◽  
The Subject

Objective: Identify the team's difficulties in dealing with the death process of patients under their care. Materials and Methods: the research carried out is classified as exploratory, qualitative, cross-sectional, with a field research design. We interviewed professionals from the health team of the oncology sector, then the data were analyzed from discourse analysisprocedures that sought connections between objects, strategies, concepts and enunciative types. To these data were verified systems of unity and coherence, reached by the analysis of the summary descriptions that were collected. Results: it was verified that there is no preparation offered by the institution so that the professionals learn the best deal with death. Therefore, it is urgent that the question of professional qualification be restored. Conclusion: the need for future research on the subject, which is suggestive of testingproposals and intervention models, such as the continuous training of professionals, is aimed at, among other purposes, the training of health professionals in dealing with process of death and death of its patients.

scholarly journals Pesquisa de campo qualitativa: uma vivência em geografia humanista

GeoTextos ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Jaqueline Nogueira Chiapetti
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
The South ◽  
Humanistic Geography ◽  
The People ◽  
Humanistic Approach

O objetivo deste artigo é descrever a experiência de uma pesquisa de campo qualitativa em Geografia, com uma abordagem humanista. A pesquisa de campo foi feita no município de Itacaré, sul do estado da Bahia, com o propósito compreender como os sujeitos de Itacaré percebem o rio das Contas, qual é o significado do rio para eles. Como método de pesquisa de campo, optamos pela história oral e pelas técnicas da entrevista, da observação e, ainda, pelo registro de paisagens através de fotografias. A nossa presença em Itacaré foi importante para o êxito da pesquisa porque pudemos conhecer melhor as pessoas e o seu cotidiano, fato que contribuiu para a qualidade das informações contidas nas 41 entrevistas feitas. Também, essa convivência com as pessoas do lugar foi uma grande experiência vivida na perspectiva da Geografia Humanista. Abstract QUALITATIVE FIELD RESEARCH: EXPERIENCE IN HUMANISTIC GEOGRAPHY This paper aims at describing the experience of a qualitative field research in Geography under a humanistic approach. The field research was carried out in Itacaré, located in the south of Bahia state, aiming at understanding how the individuals from Itacaré perceive Rio das Contas, what the river means to them. We have chosen oral history as field research method and the techniques of oral interview, observation and the record of landscapes through photography. Our presence in Itacaré was critical for the field research’s success as we could get to know better the people and their everyday life, which contributed for the quality of the information contained in the 41 oral interviews collected. Also, staying with these people was a valuable experience under the Humanistic Geography perspective.

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