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Title: Know what you're doing
Review: This book delivers on what it promises. Beware, however, that while the author addresses interviews conducted by individual researchers, the book isn't much good for people looking to do that sort of work. Oral history is a more specific kind of work than what your ninth grade history teacher may have led you to believe (go figure!). I still think that a chapter addressing interview techniques would have been appropriate in the structure of the whole book. As it is, the text is written in q&a; format, which annoyed me slightly, but it serves.Verdict: useful for anyone looking to do oral history per se and wanting a guide to the various theoretical and practical issues involved.
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