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What does oral history mean?

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Noun
  1. (historiography) The collection and study of historical information about individuals, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews.
  2. Oral tradition.
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Former prisoners have been invited to take part in an oral history project by the Johannesburg Development Agency.
Using archive sources and oral history interviews, Professor Chamberlain will unravel their amazing stories.
The EA omits key oral history data that establishes the importance of Makua to cultural practitioners.
Conducting oral history interviews can be both exhilarating and exhausting.
In conjunction with the construction of the Babelthuap road, major archaeological and oral history projects are under way.
In fact, says Terkel, his oral history approach has a lot in common with psychotherapy.

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