The Other Side of Memory: The Faces of Silence and Oblivion in Oral History
The Other Side of Memory: The Faces of Silence and Oblivion in Oral History

Summary/Abstract: Memory, as both source and object of knowledge, is characteristic of social and historical disciplines, in other words, of interpretative sciences such as cultural anthropology, history, social psychology, sociology, ethnology, etc. It is, above all, an entrenched characteristic of oral history, whether one regards this discipline as a supplement to or a specific difference within history as the proximate genus, or as a fully self-standing epistemic domain, which is nonetheless open to interdisciplinary influences. From this vantage point, what distinguishes oral history from other social disciplines devoted to the study of memory would be its propensity towards articulating a programmatically critical and problematising discourse around memory, seen both as a historical source and as a cultural phenomenon, marked by its own historicity.

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