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SAOT NOTES

Recorded Oral History


- 1920s and 30s
- WWI Veterans
- Black Culture in the South
- Native American History
- Urban history
The Federal Writers Project
- Government funded project
- Would get paid to record history
Folklore = Ethnography
- Study, documentation and understanding traditional and cultural
expressions
o Oral traditions
o Material traditions
o Traditions of belief and custom
o Performance traditions
Personal Narrative
- Memory Objects
o Passes through time, generation to generation
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