Oral History and Memory: A Personal Journey

• Randall, Margaret ^[1]
  1. [1] American-born writer, photographer, activist and academic. Born in New York City, she lived for many years in Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua, and spent time in North Vietnam during the last months of the U.S. war in that country. She has written extensively on her experiences abroad and back in the United States, and has taught at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and other colleges.
• Localización: Kamchatka: revista de análisis cultural, ISSN 2340-1869, Nº. 6, 2015 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Avatares del testimonio en América Latina), págs. 293-303
• Idioma: español
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  • Abstract: Autobiographical essay by Margaret Randall on her experience as a cultural and social activist who focused part of her work in Oral History. “How I got into doing oral history was simple. The way I went about it responded to my lack of formal training—I had no university degree, wasn’t an anthropologist or ethnographer. In line with my innate pragmatism, I wanted to know and so I asked.