Archival science and oral sources

This article is the 30th one from the whole 39 articles presented in “The Oral History Reader” (ed. by Robert Perks and Alistair Thomson), a specialized resource in oral history discourse. Despite the fact that more than 2 decades had passed since the publication of this book by Routledge in 1998, This is why the book was republished in 2006 and 2015, and the e-version was released in 2003. The book is divided into five sections with advances in Critical developments, interviewing, advocacy and empowerment, interpreting memories and Making histories. In ‘Archival science and oral sources’ (That was first published in 1996) Jean-Pierre Wallot and Norman Fortier seem to be attempting to familiarize the audience with oral history and archives, in general. In their article, they wrote the entry of oral history into the archives in the 21st-century and predicted the expansion of this field of study, and pleaded from archives to welcome oral history. They have been paying close attention to archival scholar’s view about oral history into the archival realm at the time they penned the article and link it to the previous conceptions of orality.