Interviewing in Community Oral History

by Mary Kay Quinlan, Nancy MacKay, Barbara W Sommer

Overview

The interview is the anchor of an oral history project. The fourth book in the five-volume Community Oral History Toolkit guides the interviewer through all the steps from interview preparation through follow-up. It includes guidance on selecting interviewees, training interviewers, using recording equipment, and ethical issues concerning the interviewer-interviewee relationship. Packed with instructive case studies, Volume 4 offers concrete practical examples and advice for issues such as pre-interview research, developing interview questions and points for guiding discussion, ideal interview settings and conditions, strategies for stimulating interviewees’ memories, acceptable communication techniques and behavior throughout the interview process, and rounding out interview documentation with supplementary materials and contextual information.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611322507
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/15/2013
Series:	Community Oral History Toolkit , #4
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Mary Kay Quinlan, Nancy MacKay, Barbara W Sommer

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 What, Exactly, is an Oral History Interview?; Chapter 2 Understanding the Ethics of Oral History Interviews; Chapter 3 Before the Interview: What Project Teams Need to Do; Chapter 4 Before the Interview: What Interviewers Need to Do; Chapter 5 During the Interview; Chapter 6 After the Interview;