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Biographies are essentially personal histories… [yet] they may tell us more than the story of one life: they may reveal the struggle for the survival of an entire community.

— Judith Binney

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The historians’ craft is to tease out the larger narratives from … competing versions, missing parts, and conflicting ‘truths’.

Oral history is transmitted by narrative, by song, by proverb and by genealogy. We who write down our histories in books transmit our chosen perceptions to readers rather than to listeners, but both forms are structured,interpretative and combative.

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