Editor's Introduction

IF 0.7 1区历史学 Q1 HISTORY

Oral History Review Pub Date : 2017-09-13 DOI:10.1215/10679847-6868183

Kathryn L. Nasstrom

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In this second issue of Volume 44 of the Oral History Review, the editors are pleased to publish a set of articles that reflect the increasing internationalization of the journal. The issue begins in Brazil, as Oscar de la Torre uses oral histories about slavery and the postemancipation period to explore the “good master narrative” and its contemporary meaning. We then move to the western coast of Australia, where Andrea Gaynor and Joy McCann deploy the concept of a “responsible anthropomorphism” to raise ethical issues regarding human relationships with marine environments and animals. Our next stop—Costa Rica—is the venue for Atalia Shragai to consider a narrative of what she calls “coincidental migration” which US ex patriots used to explain and justify their privileged status in Costa Rica in the face of growing criticism of the US presence in that country. Amber Abbas then takes us to the Indian subcontinent for an examination of memories of the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan; she examines the way those memories reveal a “fear of not belonging” among Muslims who remained in India after 1947, especially in light of a rising Hindu nationalism in an India officially committed to secularism. We end with Erin Jessee’s consideration of the dangers of oral history fieldwork, both for interviewers and narrators. Her examples range around the globe and are drawn in part from her own work in postgenocide Rwanda. Oral history is not always, she reminds us, “an inherently positive endeavor that results in good relationships and positive outcomes.” This issue also features the annual pedagogy section. In it, Charlotte Nunes offers an extended reflection on the ways that involving undergraduate students in the practical work of digitally archiving oral histories can lead to their thoughtful engagement with “the ideologies that surround us.” Rounding out the issue, book and media review sections offer once again a look at an astonishingly wide range of scholarship and creativity related in one way or another to the practice and theory of oral history. Among these are two sets of reviews which present multiple perspectives on two significant books in our field. The first, Michael Frisch’s A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History, published in 1990, is insightfully reexamined in essays by Brooke Bryan, Amy Starecheski, and David Cline. Sharon

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在《口述历史评论》第44卷第二期中，编辑们很高兴发表一系列文章，反映出该杂志日益国际化。这个问题始于巴西，奥斯卡·德拉托雷用关于奴隶制和解放后时期的口述历史来探索“大师叙事”及其当代意义。然后，我们前往澳大利亚西海岸，Andrea Gaynor和Joy McCann在那里提出了“负责任的拟人化”的概念，以提出有关人类与海洋环境和动物关系的伦理问题。我们的下一站——哥斯达黎加——是阿塔莉亚·施拉盖（Atalia Shragai）思考她所说的“巧合移民”的故事的地方，面对美国在哥斯达黎加的存在越来越多的批评，美国前爱国者曾用这种说法来解释和证明他们在哥斯达黎加的特权地位。Amber Abbas随后带我们前往印度次大陆，回顾1947年印度和巴基斯坦分治的记忆；她研究了这些记忆如何揭示1947年后留在印度的穆斯林“对不归属的恐惧”，特别是考虑到在一个正式致力于世俗主义的印度，印度教民族主义正在抬头。我们以Erin Jessee对口述历史田野调查的危险性的思考结束，无论是对采访者还是叙述者来说。她的例子遍布全球，部分来自她自己在种族灭绝后卢旺达的工作。她提醒我们，口述历史并不总是“一种内在的积极努力，会带来良好的关系和积极的结果。”这一期也是年度教育学部分的特色。Charlotte Nunes在书中深入思考了让本科生参与数字存档口述历史的实际工作，可以让他们深思熟虑地参与“我们周围的意识形态”，书籍和媒体评论部分再次展示了与口述历史实践和理论以某种方式相关的令人惊讶的广泛学术和创造力。其中有两组评论，对我们领域的两本重要书籍提出了多种观点。第一本是迈克尔·弗里施于1990年出版的《共有权威：口述和公共历史的工艺和意义随笔》，布鲁克·布莱恩、艾米·斯塔雷切斯基和大卫·克莱恩的随笔对其进行了深刻的重新审视。Sharon

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Oral History Review Multiple-

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期刊介绍： The Oral History Review, published by the Oral History Association, is the U.S. journal of record for the theory and practice of oral history and related fields. The journal’s primary mission is to explore the nature and significance of oral history and advance understanding of the field among scholars, educators, practitioners, and the general public. The Review publishes narrative and analytical articles and reviews, in print and multimedia formats, that present and use oral history in unique and significant ways and that contribute to the understanding of the nature of oral history and memory. It seeks previously unpublished works that demonstrate high-quality research and that offer new insight into oral history practice, methodology, theory, and pedagogy. Work published in the journal arises from many fields and disciplines, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of oral history. While based in the U.S., the Review reflects the international scope of the field and encourages work from international authors and about international topics.