BAGAIMANA AHLI

SEJARAH
MENGGUNAKAN
SL

 oral history interviews are valuable as

sources of new knowledge
as new interpretive perspectives
enriched the work of a generation of social
historians,
providing information about everyday life
insights into the mentalities of what are
sometimes termed "ordinary people" that
are simply unavailable from more
traditional sources.

 in interview after interview, oral history

opens up new views of the past
the story underneath the story
varying motives underlying public action,
that are often absent from the public record.
illuminating the relationship of the
individual to major historical events
most people engage with the past in
deeply personal ways

 barrier separating the analytic work of the

professional historian from vernacular
efforts at history-making

INTERPRETASI SL:
are not an unproblematic source.
historians must exercise critical judgment
when using interviews
The first step in assessing an interview
consider the reliability of the narrator
verifiability of the account
The narrator's relationship to the events
under discussion
the personal stake in presenting a
particular version of events

 the physical and mental state at the time

of the events under discussion
overall attention and care the narrator
brings to the interview
internal consistency of the account itself all
figure into the narrator's reliability as a
source
The veracity of what is said in an interview
can be gauged by comparing it both with
other interviews on the same subject and
with related documentary evidence

 If the interview jibes with other evidence, if

it builds upon or supplements this
evidence in a logical and meaningful way,
one can assume a certain level of veracity
in the account.
If, however, it conflicts with other evidence
or is incompatible with it, the historian
needs to account for the disparities:
Were different interviewees differently situated in
relationship to the events under discussion?

 Might they have different agendas, leading them to tell

different versions of the same story?
Might the written sources be biased or limited in a
particular way?

SIAPAKAH INTERVIEWER?
the interviewer's questions provide the
intellectual framework for the interview and
give it direction and shape
Good interviewers listen carefully and
attempt to more closely align their
questions with what the narrator thinks is
important.

SIAPAKAH INTERVIEWEER?
Yet the questions asked are not the only
influence an interviewer has upon what is
said in an interview.
interviewers have social identities that are
played out in the dynamic of the interview
deciding what they can appropriately say
to this person, what they must say, and
what they should not say

APAKAH YANG DICERITAKAN:

The topical range of oral history interviews
is enormous, including everything from the
most public of historical events to the most
intimate details of private life
The choice
Unsur2 emosi, bias, kecenderungan

KENAPA MEREKA BERCERITA:

The purposes of an interview
expressed and implied
Conscious
influence and shape the narrative itself
For a generation
away from party politics and public life

KENAPA MEREKA BERCERITA:

efforts to revive popular memory about a
subject precisely at that moment when it is
about to slip away