WHEN it comes to names, Visual-Oral-Interpretive-Classic-Entertainment-Services is a mouthful.
Through a unique blend of oral history, photographs, and interpretive essays, Corporate Wasteland investigates this fascinating terrain and the phenomenon of its loss and rediscovery.
On the one hand, we seek to empower the women we work with…on the other, we hold an explicitly political vision of the structural conditions that lead to particular social behaviors, a vision that our field collaborators…may not recognize as valid" ('That's Not What I Said:' Interpretive Conflict in Oral Narrative Research).
Above all, this study exemplifies the significance of integrating historical analyses with ethnographic investigations by examining the ways in which written documents and oral histories constitute competing yet complementary interpretive narratives about sociopolitical changes.
In Judaism, progress in the knowledge of Torah is focused in the Bible and the Talmud (commentaries on the Law), guided by the twin hermeneutical (critical interpretive) principles of Halakha (the oral precepts and decisions of the rabbis) and of Haggada (instructive stories, parables, and other similar devices).
Casey Dué and Mary Ebbott use approaches based on oral traditional poetics to illuminate many of the interpretive questions that strictly literary approaches find unsolvable.
Paul Varela, executive director of the Chumash Interpretive Center in Thousand Oaks, said oral traditions passed down through generations of Central Coast Indians confirm that they were the first inhabitants of California.
Folklorist and oral historian Katherine Borland writes, "for feminists, the issue of interpretive authority is particularly problematic, for our work often involves a contradiction.
Each day will focus on a component of the interview, including foundational aspects of oral history, project conceptualization, the interview itself, analytic and interpretive strategies, and research presentation and dissemination.
It is likely that they were based on earlier oral traditions, and perhaps certain choice sayings were inscribed on bamboo, in different collections according to different interpretive emphases, even before 400 B.C.E.
We are now in the process of working with California State Parks to develop and construct an interpretive trail that will highlight the indigenous and colonial histories of Fort Ross using archaeological studies, indigenous oral traditions, and ethnhohistorical sources.
