how do scholars study the past ? What is oral history ?
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how do scholars study the past ? What is oral history ?
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Oral history is the collection and study of historical information about individuals, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews. These interviews are conducted with people who participated in or observed past events and whose memories and perceptions of these are to be preserved as an aural record for future generations. Oral history strives to obtain information from different perspectives and most of these cannot be found in written sources. Oral history also refers to information gathered in this manner and to a written work (published or unpublished) based on such data, often preserved in archives and large libraries.[1][2][3][4] Knowledge presented by Oral History (OH) is unique in that it shares the tacit perspective, thoughts, opinions and understanding of the interviewee in its primary form.
Historians study the past by interpreting evidence. The historian works by examining primary sources -- texts, artifacts, and other materials from the time period
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Scholars have written records of past data but most of the time there ancestors or Schools told them in a Oral Format or you can say Orally! and So for Definition:-
Basically "Oral History is that in which History Data is passed by Ancestors to Generation and it Continues."