Table of Contents

Introduction: Building Partnerships between Oral History and Memory Studies   Paula Hamilton   Linda Shopes     vii
Part I
Introduction: Creating Heritage     3
Parks Canada, the Commemoration of Canada, and Northern Aboriginal Oral History   David Neufeld     7
History from Above: The Use of Oral History in Shaping Collective Memory in Singapore   Kevin Blackburn     31
Mapping Memories: Oral History for Aboriginal Cultural Heritage in New South Wales, Australia   Maria Nugent     47
Moving beyond the Walls: The Oral History of the Ottoman Fortress Villages of Seddulbahir and Kumkale   Isil Cerem Cenker   Lucienne Thys-Senocak     65
Private Memory in a Public Space: Oral History and Museums   Selma Thomas     87
Part II
Introduction: Recreating Identity and Community     103
Imagining Communities: Memory, Loss, and Resilience in Post-Apartheid Cape Town   Sean Field     107
Contested Places in Public Memory: Reflections on Personal Testimony and Oral History in Japanese American Heritage   Gail Lee Dubrow     125
"Scars in the Ground": Kauri Gum Stories   Senka Bozic-Vrbancic     145
Memory and Mourning: Living Oral History with Queer Latinos and Latinas in San Francisco   Horacio N. RoqueRamirez     165
Interfaced Memory: Black World War II Ex-GIs' and Veterans' Reunions of the Late Twentieth Century   Robert F. Jefferson     187
Part III
Introduction: Making Change     207
Public Memory as Arena of Contested Meanings: A Student Project on Migration   Riki Van Boeschoten     211
Countering Corporate Narratives from the Streets: The Cleveland Homeless Oral History Project   Daniel Kerr     231
Public Memory, Gender, and National Identity in Postwar Kosovo: The Albanian Community   Silvia Salvatici     253
Seeing the Past, Visions of the Future: Memory Workshops with Internally Displaced Persons in Colombia   Pilar Riano-Alcala     269
Contributors     293
Index     297