Abstract
Antonis Liakos
University of Athens
Why Oral History?
Two points. The first point questions the belated coming of Oral History in Greece , and comments on the diffidence and the resistance of the Greek historical community. This belated arrival wasn’t without consequences because we have lost a substantial part of the historical experience of Interwar Greece, and the Second World War. The second point regards the theoretical issue of the relationship of memory to history and of expectations of the past linkages to the future. The main argument is that oral history was the result of contesting the coherent interpretative theories of history and of a cultural turn to experiencing the historical experience.
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