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Assignment about Oral history and biography

– Lynn Abrams, Oral History Theory: whole book.
– Ghislaine Boulanger, ‘The Continuing and Unfinished Present: Psychoanalysis and Oral History’, Listening on the Edge: Oral History in the Aftermath of Crisis (New York 2014).
– Alessandro Portelli, The Oral History Interview (in Files)
– Selma Leydesdorff, The Narratives of the Survivors of Srebrenica (in Files)
– Deborah Possing, Historical Biography, p. 1-16
– Shirley A. Leckie, Why Biography Matters, p. 1-25
– Barbara Caine, Changing Biographical Practices
– Intersectionality

Hinduism

Pick a Hollywood movie or a movie from a different country (not a PBS documentary) which in your opinion has Hindu elements in it. Evaluate it based on the Hindu teachings you have come across in the text.

Using the vague phrase, “I am a Hindu” evaluate your understanding of what being a Hindu means, based on the Hindu teachings you have come across in the text.