That handsome smiling lad you see here is Travis Williams. He is an anthropologist specializing in farm stewardship projects, and he's visiting Asheville!
Travis is leading a workshop on how to conduct oral history interviews presented by the Appalachian Foods Storybank, a program of Slow Food Asheville,
This attractive event begins with a potluck lunch and then entertains an introduction to the theory and process of oral history projects.
Oral history is a field that combines the arts and sciences of anthropology, storytelling, journalism, and academic history.
Travis is set to discuss practical concerns, such as equipment and planning, as well as topics of ethics, legalities, and interview etiquette, the rudimentary concepts and procedures that one should know when preparing to get involved with an oral history project.
About the Presenter, Travis Williams. Travis Williams was educated in anthropology at The Evergreen State College in Washington State and has organized several related projects. His most recent project was entitled Stewards: Stories and Perspectives On American Agriculture, in which he interviewed over 160 agriculturalists across the USA, gathering a wide diversity of perspectives on farming, past and present. He was a radio interviewer for several years in Bend, Oregon; other projects include interview-based explorations of the ideas of "community" in Oregon and on "what it means to be foreign" in Indonesia and Australia. For more information, you may visit his website portraitofafarm.blogspot.com.
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