![]() Oral history has been dismissed, therefore, as an unreliable source of information. Interdependent from its temporality as a process, interviews are also contingent in that they are vulnerable to the particularities of location, how they are historically situated in time, and the subjectivities of participants. While oral history interviews are accounts of historical actions that occurred over time in the past, interviews themselves are real-time events narrated as a type of verbal performance. ![]() ![]() Yet, within that premise there is tension. By connecting past, present and future, oral history can be a powerful agent for identity formation and the shaping of a collective consciousness. ![]() Oral history can make objects and histories come to life and at the same time provoke new thoughts, feelings and ideas. Contemporary museums have long recognised the value of oral history as part of contextual displays, and as museum objects in their own right. ![]()
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