Moreover, the events surrounding theoralhistoryproject at Boston College show that opting for a "story telling" approach isn't without its complications.
StoryCorps is theoralhistoryproject collecting stories around the nation, as friends and family members interview each other in a mobile recording booth.
The Center has also started an oralhistoryproject in which collectors are interviewed about I'm assuming a bit here themselves, their collecting passions and their successful or failed pursuits of prized objects.
Over a decade ago, she was one of 26 former IRA members to give a series of interviews to Boston College, as part of its oralhistory research project into the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
The power of communication emphasized by these exchanges has since acted as an inspiration for Kahumbu's latest conservation project --- the creation of recorded oralhistory of Kenya's biodiversity.