Overview

"This volume explores the mixture of conscious models, myths, and material inheritance which are intertwined in both family and individual life stories. This second volume in the series, ""International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories"", aims to increase understanding of the recent past and the changing present through autobiographical testimony, in the form of written autobiography, oral history and life story interviews. Each issue will form a coherent volume focusing on a single theme, and will be interdisciplinary in scope. Like its predecessor, ""Memory and Totalitarianism"", this book concerns the powerful memories which affect almost all families throughout the world. What is it that parents pass down to their children? How can we understand the mixture of conscious models, myths and material inheritance which are intertwined in both family and individual life stories? The editors bring together contributions from the Americas and Asia, as well as from Western and Eastern Europe. Their approach combines the techniques of life story research with the insights of family therapy in a book of interest not only to historians and social scientists, but also to professionals working with families."

Full Product Details

Author:   Daniel Bertaux ,  Paul Thompson
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   Vol 2
Dimensions:   Width: 13.00cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.438kg
ISBN:  

9780198202493

ISBN 10:   0198202490
Pages:   234
Publication Date:   01 November 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Part 1 Family, myth, models and denials in the shaping of individual life paths, Paul Thompson; the pull of family ties - intergenerational relationships and life paths, Isabelle Bertaux-Wiame; religion, family and industry in the transmission of values - the case of women textile workers in Antioquia, Colombia, Luz Gabriela Arango; social change, family histories and attitudes to money in a rural community in Epirus, Klimia Navridis; attitudes towards marriage and divorce among women in modern China, Weiyan Farmer; a Hitler youth from a respectable family - narrative composition and deconstruction of a life story, Reinhard Sieder; transgenerational transmission in the families of Holocaust survivors in England, Natasha Burchardt; grandmothers, mothers and daughters - intergenerational transmission in displaced families in three Jewish communities, Lena Inowlocki; memory of slavery in black families of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Maria de Lourdes et al; spoken and unspoken words in the life of a Cypriot woman - a life story by her granddaughter, Elena Georgiou; Kichuk Paris - a Bulgarian family story, Valentina Stoev. Part 2 Review articles: family memory - a review of French works on the subject, Anne Muxel; transmitting history and making it, Elizabeth Tonkin; the German working class and National Socialism - two reviews, Freddy Raphaeel and Roswitha Brecner. Part 3 Book reviews: ""I Kvinnoled: Om kvinnors liv genom tre generationer"", Lissie Astroem; ""Generations: An American Family"", John Egerton; ""E femmina pero e bella: Tre generazioni di donne al Sud"", Renate Siebert; ""Women's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History"", Sherna Gluck and Daphne Patai; ""Storia di donne e femministe"", Luigi Passerini. Part 4 Endpiece: we're all on tape - voice recording and the electronic afterlife, Alessandro Portelli."

Reviews

Thompson and Bertaux make both coherent and beautifully engaging the many contexts and strategies presented. This window on the contemporary scholarship of memory, oral history, cultural transmission, and family dynamics will challenge researchers across many disciplines. --Oral History Review<br>

Thompson and Bertaux make both coherent and beautifully engaging the many contexts and strategies presented. This window on the contemporary scholarship of memory, oral history, cultural transmission, and family dynamics will challenge researchers across many disciplines.--Oral History Review

Thompson and Bertaux make both coherent and beautifully engaging the many contexts and strategies presented. This window on the contemporary scholarship of memory, oral history, cultural transmission, and family dynamics will challenge researchers across many disciplines. --Oral History Review Thompson and Bertaux make both coherent and beautifully engaging the many contexts and strategies presented. This window on the contemporary scholarship of memory, oral history, cultural transmission, and family dynamics will challenge researchers across many disciplines. --Oral History Review Thompson and Bertaux make both coherent and beautifully engaging the many contexts and strategies presented. This window on the contemporary scholarship of memory, oral history, cultural transmission, and family dynamics will challenge researchers across many disciplines. --Oral History Review

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