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Textbox 2.2: A Summary of Strategies for Knowing the Present through Oral Histories
ОглавлениеIn any use of a constructionist paradigm:
Explain how you’ve addressed the likely gaps between the meanings narrators have experienced, and the narratives they’ve provided.
Choose whether your focus is the past vs. its present-day meanings and the social processes influencing them.
To study plural pasts and their present-day meanings:
Explore how reconstructions of the past change in changing contexts.
Map out and seek to understand the divides in collective memory and the groups involved in remembering.
Compare a state’s official history to histories from below.
Examine families as sites in which official and autobiographical memories may differ.