Buy this book on-line EVANS, GEORGE EWART: : Spoken HistoryLONDON.FABER & FABER,1987. ISBN 0571149820.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.
Pictorial colour portrait dw/dj by David Gentleman.Light creasing top edge dw/dj, but no nicks or tears.Fore-edges aged as usual/normal,contents bright and clean.
Lightly marked rear dw/dj panel.Green paper-covered boards,white letters to spine/backstrip.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, 255pp includes index and b/w line illus chapter headpieces possibly(?) by David Gentleman - author's son-in-law.
George Ewart Evans,in his first book about East Anglia (Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay) over thirty years ago,pioneered the writing of oral history in Britain and Ireland.His new book is a conspectus of all the work he has done in this field.It is also a handbook of his methods and the discoveries he has made in meeting,and recording on magnetic tape,dozens of people in the four countries.
One of the discoveries he made in the course of this convinced him that the language of the common man - often called dialect - with its preference for the concrete expression,is a worthy model even for his better-read compatriots.
Another is his feeling that the historian,at the end of the twentieth century,needs to widen his catchment area to include the material revealed by anthropologists all over the world,in order to make a closer bond between the disciplines.No longer does the historian study documents only,while the anthropologist concentrates on people.Oral history is quickly developing into a fruitful amalgam of both approaches.
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