
By Luisa Del Giudice
This e-book introduces readers to quite a lot of interpretations that take oral heritage and folklore because the premise with a spotlight on Italian and Italian American tradition in disciplines corresponding to historical past, ethnography, memoir, artwork, and song.
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Another reason why it is so meaningful is the way in which it was carried out. If you read most of the commemorative plaques on the walls of Rome, they say that such-and-such a man was “barbarously” murdered by the Nazis, or some such formula. In fact, they were not barbarously murdered at all: it was a very civilized massacre. It could not have been carried out without the modern state, without the logistics, without the archives, without Western civilization. ” They had to have trucks to take them to the place of the execution.
2003. The order has been carried out: History, memory and meaning of a Nazi massacre in Rome. New York: Palgrave. Translation of L’ordine è già stato eseguito: Roma, le Fosse Ardeatine, la memoria. Rome: Donzelli, 2001. Ritchie, Donald. 1995. Doing oral history. New York: Twayne. Scherini, Rose. 1994. Una storia segreta: When Italian Americans were enemy aliens. Albany, CA: American Italian Historical Association, Western Regional Chapter. Schrager, Samuel. 1998. What is social in oral history?
G. Fulford. 1993. To our children: Preserving family history for generations to come. New York: Doubleday. Harrington, Beth. 1995. The blinking madonna. Berkeley: New Video Documentaries. Ives, Edward D. 1980. The tape-recorded interview: A manual for field workers in folklore and oral history. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. Jackson, Bruce. 1987. Fieldwork. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. , F. Cavaioli, S. Primeggia, and J. Varacalli, eds. The Italian American experience: An encyclopedia.