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Spoken History Review"George Ewart Evans in his first book about East Anglia over thirty years ago pioneered the writing of oral history in Britain and Ireland. His new book is a comspectus of all the work he has done in this field. It is also a handbook of his methods and the discoveries he has made in meeting, and recording on magnetic tape, dozens of people in the four countries. One of the discoveries he made in the course of this convinced him that the language of the common man - often called dialect - with its preference for the concrete expression, is a worthy model even for his better-read compatriots. Another is his feeling that the historian, at the end of the twentieth century, needs to widen his catchment area to include the material revealed by anthroplogists all over the world, in order to make a closer bond between the disciplines. No longer does the hisotrian sudy documents only, while the anthroplogist concetrates on people. Oral history is quickly developing into a fruitful amalgam of both approaches."Spoken History OverviewGeorge Ewart Evans is the pre-eminent chronicler of the British countryside; marrying oral history with sympathetic commentary and analysis, over thirty years and in a series of books, he afforded a unique view of a receding world.Spoken History (1987) is a retrospective of his remarkable achievements. It describes his pioneering methods, as well as the broad cast of characters he has interviewed across the years in seeking out the story of the land. What shines brightly is his love of dialect and his respect for its rich expression - as noble a vehicle for historical truth as more conventional modes. He also argues the case for historians to cast their net more widely, to entertain different voices, different cultures, in a more meaningful survey than documents alone can provide.The book is testament to a dimming way of life, and to a visionary man who strove to capture our final glimpses of it.

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