口述史内容涉及事件史和生命史。长期以来，学者们对事件史的口述研究较为充分，但事实上生命史才是口述史研究的底蕴，它也是口述史具备人文性特点的根本原因所在。所谓人文性是指立足于个人并关注个人与社会间关系的知识。口述史人文性更聚焦于生命史，对由细节堆积起来的人生史报以极大耐心和敬意；人文口述史在尊重基本历史事实的前提下，甚至不会忽视口述者有意或无意的“谎言”，而以社会建构视角来探查这一存在的社会成因。

The content of oral history involves event history and life history. For a long time,scholars have been more fully engaged in the oral study of event history,but in fact,life history is the underpinning of oral history research,and it is the fundamental reason for the humanistic character of oral history. Humanism refers to knowledge that is based on the individual and focuses on the relationship between the individual and society. Humanistic oral history focuses on life history and pays great patience and respect to the life history that is built up from details; while respecting basic historical facts,humanistic oral history does not even ignore the intentional or unintentional “lies” of oral narrators,but investigates the social causes of this existence from the perspective of social construction.

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