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Unit-23: Oral History, Narratives

oral history may inaugurate personal values and activities through which past has been built up and notes
also clarifies that how does past provides a shape to the present values and activities. Every interview
experience is unique in itself and is an attractive part of work field. Because of this, to some extent it
is applicable in the popular saying that, to learn how to do a job, the only way of it is to do the job.
this is the reason why every interview taken after an interview is more successful.
the new art of study which is being developed, in that folk history is being used to a large extent,
one that was history of narration, narrative history, is being used in history different from that. such
narrations are based on oral narrations.
As long, his speech power is concerned human stambh praani, who completely couldn’t become human,
limited speech power developed it. However, big human’s throat composition, mind’s composition
and speech power, relation in them just missed from happening. But speech power voice ability to
give meaning to words, we have received in heritage. Verbalism came before, scripting after that.
But verbalism today is also more important than scripting. What we have to say, we can say it by
writing also, but from the point of view of transmission,verbalism always have to be resorted to for
transmission of our thoughts.
from the point of view of continuity and from the point of view of change, we will have to look at the
tradition of verbalism with seriousness. it is also true that what is scripted tradition, in development
of it, oral tradition has a very strong hand. After all Panchtantra, Hitopdesh, or different from that,
Sahastra Rajni Charitra, these were developed through oral tradition only. these got scripted and
matter of surprise is that this scripting gave birth to new oral tradition. there is a famous poet in
Aligarh, who when he recite a poem then it feels very good, but when we read the same poem it
doesn’t feel so good.

self assessment

fill in the blanks:
1. oral history may ___________ personal values and activities through which past has been
built up.
2. to some extent it is _____________ in the popular saying that, to learn how to do a job, the
only way of it is to do the job.
3. the new art of study which is being __________, in that folk history is being used to a large
extent.

23.2 narratives

Narrative research points towards any such studies which analyzes narrative material and its limit may
expand from narrative that happen naturally for research purposes to oral stories of life. its purpose
is found in written narratives in personal, public or political fields. One out of the given main reasons
that why many social scientists have interest in narrative studies is because narrative is a fundamental
human method of building the conscious of the world. Narrative analysis is primarily centred on
written or oral lessons but it can also be used in analysing photographs, films or dance presentations.
Narrative analysis is essentially vested in interdisciplinary view. fields are comparatively uneven and
there is no single method of analysis which should be used by narrative researcher.
the main reason behind the present popularity of narrative analysis is the narrative or linguistic
trend in social science. in it social internal activities (anth kriya) and a re-renovated (punarnavinikrat)
interest is brought forward, in which language plays an important role. Language is not neutral but
is a medium to bring inequality in social objectives and in this way, is trapped in the framework

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