<P>The recent wave of interest in oral history and return to the active subject as a topic in historical practice raises a number of questions about the status and function of scholarly history in our societies. This articles in this volume, originally pubished in 1990, and which originally appeared in <I>History and Anthropology, Volume 2, Part 2,</I> discuss what contributions, meanings and consequences emerge from scholarly history turning to living memory, and what the relationships are between history and memory. </P>