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Increasingly, these stories serve to not only entertain and to create a vibrant link to the past, but also as historical evidence, or a means to underwrite academic disciplines such as history, ethnic studies, and gender studies. While oral histories undoubtedly make a unique contribution to the literature of these fields, in his 1993 publication "Culture and Truth," Renato Rosaldo elaborates the dangers in reducing the personal to academic knowledge, cautioning that "in invoking personal experience as analytical category, one risks easy dismissal" (p.11). Rosaldo feels, as I do, that the extent that "professional" attempts to tell or to assist in telling, the stories of others ultimately illuminate more about the writer or "interpreter" than they do the subject. This belief has led me to limit my influence in this book to reorganizing the sequence of certain observations and events, and incorporating information gathered during tape-recorded interviews into the already-written text essentially verbatim. I have tried to the greatest extent possible to limit my own modifications and suggestions to efforts to clarify the text, rather than modify its meaning through either inclusions or exclusions. Moreover, a lifetime of letter-writing and a keen sense of observation have rendered Mrs. Rodriguez de Rochín uniquely qualified to tell her own story.
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