ISTORIA ORALĂ ŞI ETNOTEXTUL: AFINITĂŢI SUBIECTIVE
Oral History and The Ethno Text: Subjective Affinities

Summary/Abstract: Having the consciousness of subjectivity, oral history facilitates lots of new methodological fields that focus on subjectivity as well, but in their own manner. Oral sources are, from the very beginning, subjective proceedings to make documents (by the help of interviews, dialogues, questionnaires etc.). Secondly, they are a “bank” of interpretations activated by the interviewee and, thirdly, they create a discourse activated by historians in order to reveal a past reality. Subjectivity is a ’style’ of oral discourse, in the way that it presumes a relationship between oral historian and the witness. Subjectivity – plurality – individuality - personality “give birth” to the discourse and its expressivity, being the subject and, in the same time, the attribute of the reality that tries to assemble the complexity of social livings and the complexity of historiographical researches, both of them crucial for an ample cultural field. Crisscrossing word, identity and subjectivity there is ethno text. This notion of ethno text appears in the eight decade of the last century in France, as a “discourse of a community saying something about itself”, about its identity as dynamics. Oral literature, ethnology, oral history, ethno text put to light affinities and differences regarding subjectivity and qualitative strategies in social sciences. New paradigms illuminate both history and ethnology.

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