The book highlights the ways in which ethnic belonging influences the shape and content of life stories and hence of self-understanding and personal identity.
This book contains fifteen life story compositions that have been prepared within the oral history study «Ethnic and narrative diversity in life story constructions in Latvia» (directed by Vieda Skultans, PhD) at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the University of Latvia. All of the authors of the selected life stories live in Latvia and are native Russian speakers or use the language on a daily basis.
Between 1943 and 1946 the Baltic Sea was braved illegally by some eleven thousand refugees from the Baltic countries – mainly Estonia and Latvia – who landed on the island of Gotland, a county of Sweden. Memories of these events persist in the life …
The goal of this book is to prepare new interviewers as well as inspire writers of memories, whose methodologically correctly organised work can bring greater diversity of experiences to collections of authentic biographical sources as well as to …
The collection of papers focuses on oral history in dialogue with society, including society’s involvement in the research process from the source material to its link back to society, when researchers share the results of their research. At the same …
The first part of the book sums up the views of the National Oral History (NOH) researchers regarding life stories and self-awareness. The second part of the book includes excerpts from 13 life stories that have been used as sources for the chapters in the first part of the book.
The focus of this online proceedings is oral history research, life- histories, and biographies through which we gained insight into the collective and individual consequences of migration.
This book is dedicated to the Livonians, an ancient nation whose last home was the northern part of the Kurzeme peninsula. Six life stories recorded on the Livonian Coast tell about life along the North Kurzeme coast in the 20th century.
This publication about Latvians in Sweden is the first book by the National Oral History Project dedicated to the communities of Latvians living outside of Latvia. The book consists of two parts, each representing a different point of view. The …
The special value of Laimonis Upmalis' book is the concise records, exact dates of events, place names, first names and surnames. Laimonis Upmalis (1927), like his sister, a well-known children's writer Vija Upmale, is a good observer of life and …