%0 Journal Article %T A hist¨®ria oral em Portugal %A Oliveira %A Lu¨ªsa Tiago de %J Sociologia, Problemas e Pr¨¢ticas %D 2010 %I Editora Mundos Sociais %X this article seeks to characterise the rise of the area of oral history in portugal at the end of the 20th century, a fact to which researchers working in foreign academic contexts and originating from subject areas bordering on history made a contribution. we sketch out the situation of oral history and identify its practices, in which the women, more recent researchers, stand out, including a proportion from outside the academic world. on the basis of an analysis of works published by paula godinho, lu¨ªsa tiago de oliveira and dalila cabrita mateus, some of the possibilities and problems raised by its employment are revealed. %K oral history %K oral sources %K historical methodologies. %U http://www.scielo.gpeari.mctes.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0873-65292010000200008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en