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A291/HC353: Oral History of the City

Practice Interview Guide

Focus on Narrator's Holiday Celebrations
Broad Topics to Discuss:

With Focus throughout on CHANGE
TOPICS
 
Personal History Family/Friends/Community Tradition Changes and Continuities


1. General Biographical Information [very brief]:  
Objectives
 
• gather basic background information   • put individual at ease answering easy questions

You will get this information through the Biographical Information and Family History form
2. Holidays  
Objectives
 
• identify individual's favorite/least favorite holidays

• identify individual's sense of what a holiday is and should be

• connect individual's holiday celebrations to family or community

• get sense of individual's values through her holiday narrative

• get sense of changes and continuities in holidays for the individual

• explore positive and negative attitudes/gfeelings for specific or general holidays

• understand why the narrator says what she says (ie, explore the unstated as well as the stated basis for what she says)

 

Using these objectives, devise an Interview Guide that you will hand in with your project.

 


3. Any suggestions for future references?
 
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created 09/04/2001
previous revision: 09/04/2001
this revision: 09/06/2001