The ear and the eye: oral history and micro-history

Journal title ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA
Author/s Alessandro Casellato
Publishing Year 2014 Issue 2014/275
Language Italian Pages 29 P. 250-278 File size 256 KB
DOI 10.3280/IC2014-275003
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Oral and micro-history develop their physiognomy - in the sense of assuming a name and a status as a complex of practices, places and networks of relations - by the late Sixties of the past century, but possess long and multiple roots, most of them widely shared. In order to reconstruct their genesis, the A. sketches a piece of social history of Italian historiography from the Sixties to the Eighties, trying also to enucleate the various hermeneutics underlying oral and micro-history, together with their own distinctive peculiarities. Finally, drawing on some fruitful research experiences he shows how these newborn disciplines can give way to a profitable collaboration.

Keywords: Oral history, micro-history, local history, methodology of historical research, social history of historiography, history and autobiography

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Alessandro Casellato, L’orecchio e l’occhio: storia orale e microstoria in "ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA" 275/2014, pp 250-278, DOI: 10.3280/IC2014-275003