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A Dialogical Relationship. An Approach to Oral History alessandro portelli 1. Oral sources and oral history The phrase oral history is a common abbreviation for what we might describe, more articulately, as the use of oral sources in history or the social In its most elementary form, the oral narratives and testimony which constitute oral history are but an additional tool in the historian s panoply of sources, and are therefore subject to the same critical scrutiny as all other sources, in order to ascertain their reliability and their usefulness. From this point of view, we distinguish the oral source from the oral tradition: the latter is made up of verbal constructs that are formalized, transmitted, shared, whereas the historian s oral sources are individual, informal, dialogic narratives created in the encounter between the historian and the narrator.

A Dialogical Relationship. An Approach to Oral History Alessandro Portelli 1. Oral sources and oral history The phrase oral history is a common abbreviation for what we might describe, more articulately, as the use of oral sources in history or the social sciences.1 In its most elementary form, the oral narratives and testimony which …

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