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Interpretive Oral History — Making Meaning from Personal Testimony

Interpretive oral history is a qualitative research design that collects and analyzes first-person spoken accounts of the past through an explicitly interpretive lens. Rather than treating recorded testimony as a transparent factual record, it foregrounds the meaning-making process — examining how narrators construct, remember, and frame their experiences — drawing on hermeneutic and interpretive traditions to illuminate subjectivity, memory, and historical consciousness.

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Sources

  1. Portelli, A. (1991). The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in Oral History. State University of New York Press. ISBN: 978-0791406229
  2. Ritchie, D. A. (2003). Doing Oral History: A Practical Guide (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0195154344

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ScholarGateInterpretive oral history (Interpretive Oral History Research). Retrieved 2026-06-04 from https://scholargate.app/en/qualitative/interpretive-oral-history