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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Introduction
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Reflections on a Lifetime of Listening
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Encounters in Vulnerability, Familiarity, and Friendship
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The Intersection of Ethics and Politics
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Considering Silence
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Reviews
“By acknowledging the personal impact of doing oral history work, this valuable collection of reflections is a wonderful bridge among academic disciplines as well as for those of us who practice oral history outside of academia: all practitioners are important to include in these ethical and theoretical discussions.” (Sady Sullivan, The Oral History Review, Vol. 44 (2), 2017)
' the essays in this collection reflect on those sensitive, uncomfortable and sometimes daunting moments in interviews that are usually left unmentioned. They show that the required skills of openness and patience can be gained only through practice and conscious critical evaluation of what we learn in theory. I found the essays wise and constructive in presenting the political, ethical and personal challenges that researchers face in interactions with subjects of their studies.' - LSE Review of Books Blog
"Oral History Off the Record, an interdisciplinary collection of essays, will appeal to a beginner learning oral history methods as well as the accomplished practitioner. The contributors are so honest, so willing to make themselves vulnerable, that you feel compelled to think deeply about issues in the oral history interview that were scarcely alluded to earlier. You won't want to put this book down, but if you have to, you will find yourself continuing to think about it." - Valerie Yow, author of Recording Oral History: A Guide for the Humanities and Social Sciences"The interview is the keystone of our practice. This volume opens up that practice to self-reflexive scrutiny and interrogation and introduces the reader - the old hand as much as the newcomer - to honest appraisals of the interview process by some of the best known practitioners in the field. Oral History Off the Record is an honest and insightful appraisal of how we go about our craft from a range of disciplinary perspectives. The contributors share their anxieties, their struggles, their vulnerabilities, and their successes; this personal perspective makes this book a refreshing, engaging, and important intervention." - Lynn Abrams, Professor of Modern History, University of Glasgow, UK
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Oral History Off the Record
Book Subtitle: Toward an Ethnography of Practice
Editors: Anna Sheftel, Stacey Zembrzycki
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Oral History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137339652
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Anna Sheftel and Stacey Zembrzycki 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-33963-8Published: 07 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-33964-5Published: 07 October 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-33965-2Published: 11 September 2013
Series ISSN: 2731-5673
Series E-ISSN: 2731-5681
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 301
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Anthropology, Sociology, general, Cultural History, Ethnography, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology