Description
Portelli offers a new and challenging strategy to oral history, with an interdisciplinary and multicultural point of view. Examining cultural conflict and communication between social groups and classes in industrial societies, he identifies the way in which individuals strive to create memories with the intention to make sense in their lives, and evaluates the have an effect on of the fieldwork enjoy at the consciousness of the researcher. By recovering the price of the tale-telling enjoy, Portelli’s work makes delightful reading for the specialist and non-specialist alike.