Oral history off the record : toward an ethnography of practice / edited by Anna Sheftel and Stacey Zembrzycki ; foreword by Steven High ; afterword by Alessandro Portelli.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reflections on a lifetime of listening / Henry Greenspan -- From California to Kufr Nameh and back: reflections on forty years of feminist oral history / Sherna Berger Gluck -- "On" and "off" the record in shifting times and circumstances / Julie Cruikshank and Tatiana Argounova-Low -- Politics and praxis in Canadian working-class oral history / Joan Sangster -- Encounters in vulnerability, familiarity, and friendship / Hourig Attarian -- The vulnerable listener / Martha Norkunas -- Listen and learn: familiarity and feeling in the oral history interview / Alan Wong -- Going places: helping youth with refugee experiences take their stories public / Elizabeth Miller -- Not just another interviewee: befriending a Holocaust survivor / Stacey Zembrzycki -- The intersection of ethics and politics / Leyla Neyzi -- I can hear Lois now: corrections to my story of the internment of Japanese Canadians -- "for the record" / Pamela Sugiman -- Third parties in "third spaces": reflecting on the role of the translator in oral history interviews with Iraqi diasporic women / Nadia Jones-Gailani -- "If you'd told me you wanted to talk about the '60s, I wouldn't have called you back": reflections on collective memory and the practice of oral history / Nancy Janovicek -- The ethical murk of using testimony in oral historical research in South Africa / Monica Eileen Patterson -- Considering silence / Erin Jessee -- Toward an ethics of silence: negotiating off-the-record events and identity in oral history / Alexander Freund -- The heart of activism in Colombia: reflections on activism and oral history research in a conflict area / Luis van Isschot -- "I don't fancy history very much": reflections on interviewee recruitment and refusal in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Anna Sheftel.