Oral traditions are historical sources of a special nature. Their special nature derives from the fact that they are "unwritten" sources couched in a form suitable for oral transmission, and that their preservation depends on the powers of memory of successive generations of human beings. In many parts of the world inhabited by peoples without writing, oral tradition forms the ...(展开全部)

Oral Tradition as History is one of the best books of this genre. This volume’s achievements reach well beyond any single discipline and create a bridge between the humanists and social scientists. If there is a single book that Africaists, oral historians, anthropologists, and folklorists should add to their personal libraries, this is it.

"Tradition", by esteemed sociologist Edward Shils, was the first book to fully explore the history, significance, and future of tradition as a whole. Intent on questioning the meaning of the antitraditionalist impulse in today's society, Shils argues here that the tendency to distrust and rebel against tradition is at the heart of tradition itself; only through suspicion and de...(展开全部)

Oral history is vital to our understanding of the cultures and experiences of the past. Unlike written history, oral history forever captures people's feelings, expressions, and nuances of language. But what exactly is oral history? How reliable is the information gathered by oral history? And what does it take to become an oral historian? Donald A. Ritchie, a leading expert in...(展开全部)

Oral history is vital to our understanding of the cultures and experiences of the past. Unlike written history, oral history forever captures people's feelings, expressions, and nuances of language. But what exactly is oral history? How reliable is the information gathered by oral history? And what does it take to become an oral historian? Donald A. Ritchie, a leading expert in...(展开全部)

How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the abstract? How do we have meaningful conversations about it with those closest to us? In Porn: An Oral History, her extraordinary second book, Polly Barton interrogates the absence of discussion around a topic that is ubiquitous and influences our daily lives. In her search for unde...(展开全部)

Comprising interviews with lesser documented developers at companies including Sega, Enix, Capcom, Hudson Soft and Nihon Falcom, Japansoft: An Oral History offers fresh and diverse perspectives on many of the defining games of their time. A re-edited digest of game journalist John Szczepaniak's three volume series, The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers. This edition a...(展开全部)

Japansoft以创新且设计精美的方式，讲述了日本新兴电子游戏产业的历史，由当时在场的人讲述，带领读者了解游戏、公司和人类的经历，它们塑造了一种全新的文化。 《日本软体：口述历史》采访了世嘉、艾尼克斯、卡普空、Hudson Soft 和日本 Falcom 等公司的游戏开发者，为我们这个时代的许多标志性游戏提供了新颖而多样的视角。这本书深入探讨了日本电子游戏行业的起源，记录了几十年来备受喜爱的创意时代。日本插画家长场雄的轶事插图，以及从未见过的时代照片、罕见的新闻广告，以及日本游戏时代早期标志性的关键电脑和游戏机的插图指南，为这本书增添了丰富的见解。 本书是游戏记者 John Szczepaniak 的三卷本系列作品《日本游戏开发者不为人知的历史》的重新编辑摘要，其中增加了对藤田晴美（ 《生化尖兵》）、船水则孝（《1943 年、88 区》）、松前爱美...(展开全部)