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Oral History Off the Record - Toward an Ethnography of Practice (Hardcover, New)
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Oral History Off the Record - Toward an Ethnography of Practice (Hardcover, New)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History
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Most discussions of oral history method are rooted in abstract
ideas about what interviewing should be and should achieve.
However, interviews are ultimately personal interactions between
human beings, and as such they rarely conform to a methodological
ideal. Nonetheless, oral history's complex, capricious nature is
rarely addressed by its practitioners when they share their work
with the world. The struggles and negotiations interviewers face
while conducting interviews - ethical, political, personal - either
go unacknowledged or are discussed only with trusted colleagues in
informal settings. This groundbreaking collection shows that a full
account of oral history methodology must include honest and
rigorous analyses of actual practice, allowing us to embrace the
uncertainties and remarkable opportunities that define a
human-centered methodology. Here, fourteen practitioners draw
connections between vastly different areas of study, including
Holocaust memories, work with Aboriginal communities, Islamic
studies, immigration, and conflict studies. All are united by the
shared experience of encountering complex individuals with messy,
difficult, and ultimately illuminating stories to tell.
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