Rethinking oral history and tradition : an indigenous perspective

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Rethinking oral history and tradition : an indigenous perspective / Nēpia Mahuika.

Summary:

"For many indigenous peoples, oral history is a living intergenerational phenomenon that is crucial to the transmission of our languages, cultural knowledge, politics, and identities. Indigenous oral histories are not merely traditions, myths, chants or superstitions, but are valid historical accounts passed on vocally in various forms, forums, and practices. Rethinking Oral History and Tradition: An Indigenous Perspective provides a specific native and tribal account of the meaning, form, politics and practice of oral history. It is a rethinking and critique of the popular and powerful ideas that now populate and define the fields of oral history and tradition, which have in the process displaced indigenous perspectives. This book, drawing on indigenous voices, explores the overlaps and differences between the studies of oral history and oral tradition, and urges scholars in both disciplines to revisit the way their fields think about orality, oral history methods, transmission, narrative, power, ethics, oral history theories and politics. Indigenous knowledge and experience holds important contributions that have the potential to expand and develop robust academic thinking in the study of both oral history and tradition.-- Provided by the publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780190681685
ISBN: 0190681683
Physical Description: 270 pages ; 25 cm.
Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Oral history and indigenous people -- The displacement of indigenous oral history -- Rethinking the form of oral history -- The dynamics of indigenous oral sources -- The politics of power in indigenous oral history -- Indigenous oral history in method and practice -- Interweaving oral history theories with indigenous practices -- The indigenous truth of oral history -- Appendix 1: Glossary -- Appendix 2: Selected moteatea, waiata, and haka -- Appendix 3: Genealogy tables.