Listening to the Voices of the Past : Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Oral History

Abstract

The book is dealing with oral history. It analyses the development of this research method, in the world and in the Czech Republic.

The authors focus on various methodological issues in connection with oral history (recording, ethics, legal issues, the question of memory etc.) and also look at the limits and possibilities of analysing and interpreting oral history material.

Keywords

• oral history
• contemporary history
• qualitative research