The Oral History Review, Volume 9, Issue 1 (1981)

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Story and History: A Folklorist's View
Roger D. Abrahams
Pages: 1-12
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Oral History, Quantification, and the New Social History
Richard Jensen
Pages: 13-26
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Oral History and the Writing of Ethnic History: A Reconnaissance into Method and Theory
Gary Y. Okihiro
Pages: 27-46
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Memories From the Street: Oral Histories of Elderly Methadone Patients
David T. Courtwright, Herman Joseph & Don C. Des Jarlais
Pages: 47-64
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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The Ngwa-Igbo Clan of Southeastern Nigeria: An Oral History Overview
J. N. Oriji
Pages: 65-84
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Oral History, Public History, and Historic Preservation: California Birds of a Feather
Knox Mellon
Pages: 85-96
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Oral History and Historic Preservation: A Case Study in Washington and Idaho
Madeline Buckendorf & Margot H. Knight
Pages: 97-114
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Why Not Try Videotaping Oral History?
W. Richard Whitaker
Pages: 115-124
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Book Reviews
John A. Neuenschwander
Pages: 125-129
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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The People of Three Mile Island.
By Robert Del Tredici, San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1980. 127 pp. Softbound, $7.95.
Carl Oblinger
Pages: 129-131
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Walter Lippmann and the American Century
By Ronald Steel, Boston: Little, Brown and Co., Atlantic Monthly Press, 1980. 669 pp. Hardbound, $19.95.
Donald A. Ritchie
Pages: 131-133
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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American Dreams: Lost and Found.
By Studs Terkel. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980. 470 pp. Hardbound, $14.95.
Ronald J. Grele (Director, Oral History Program)
Pages: 133-136
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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The Tape-Recorded Interview: A Manual for Field Workers in Folklore and Oral History
By Edward D. Ives. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1980. 130 pp. Hardbound, $9.75; Softbound, $5.50.
Cullom Davis (Director, Oral History Program)
Pages: 136-138
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Indeh, An Apache Odyssey.
By Eve Ball, with the assistance of Nora Henn and Lynda Sanchez. Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1980. 334 pp. Hardbound, $19.95.
Ronald N. Satz
Pages: 138-140
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Lebenserfahrung und Kollektives Gedächtnis. Die Praxis Der “Oral History.”
Edited by Lutz Niethammer. Frankfurt am Main: Syndikat, 1980. 375 pp. Hardbound, DM 48.
Jim Wayne Miller
Pages: 140-142
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Working Lives: The Southern Exposure History of Labor in the South.
Edited by Marc S. Miller. New York: Pantheon Books, 1981. 414 pp. Hardbound, $17.95; Softbound, $7.95.
James Findlay
Pages: 142-144
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Book Review
American Jewish Memoirs: Oral Documentation.
Edited by Geoffrey Wigoder. Jerusalem: Oral History Division, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1980. 88 pp. Softbound, n.p.
Elizabeth B. Mason (Acting Director, Oral History Research Office)
Pages: 144-146
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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First Person America.
By Ann Banks. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. 287 pp. Hardbound, $13.95.
Ronald Grossman
Pages: 146-148
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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The Immigrants Speak: Italian Americans Tell Their Story.
By Salvatore J. LaGumina. New York: The Center for Migration Studies, 1979. 209 pp. Hardbound, $14.95.
J. Vincenza Scarpaci
Pages: 148-150
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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An Economic History of Central Niger.
By Stephen Baier. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. 325 pp. Hardbound, $45.00.
Melvin E. Page
Pages: 150-152
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Book Review
The Mountain, The Miner, and the Lord, and Other Tales From a Country Law Office.
By Harry M. Caudill. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1980. 177 pp. Hardbound, $12.50.
R. Wayne Anderson (Director, Oral History Office)
Pages: 153-154
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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The Revolution Remembered: Eyewitness Accounts of the War for Independence.
Edited by John C. Dann. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980. 446 pp. Hardbound, $20.00.
John Watterson
Pages: 155-156
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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James M. Landis: Dean of the Regulators.
By Donald A. Ritchie. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980. 267 pp. Hardbound, $17.50.
Samuel B. Hand
Pages: 157-158
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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The Communist Party and the Auto Workers Unions.
By Roger Keeran. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980. 340 pp. Hardbound, $22.50.
Walter Licht
Pages: 159-160
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Oral History Association Council Reports

Brief Report
Oral History Association Council Reports
Pages: 161-178
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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