“What Makes Oral History Different?” In Oral History, Oral Culture, and Italian Americans, edited by Luisa del Guidice, pp. 21-30. Springer.

In this important article from 1979, Portelli argues that orality, narrative form, subjectivity, memory, and the relationship between the interviewer and the interviewee – all distinctive characteristics of oral history – should be considered oral history’s strengths, not weaknesses.  
 

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