Author:
Sheftel Anna,Zembrzycki Stacey
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1. “Humanistic” refers to practices that acknowledge the humanity of interviewer and interviewee and foster collaborative and mutually respectful research environments as well as significant, long-term research relationships. Our use of the word “engaged” expands on how scholars have conceived of their political commitments to marginalized communities, highlighting the ways that oral history connects researchers to the people with whom they work in meaningful, committed, and often political ways. Practices based in social justice, solidarity, and care are central to all of our authors’ work. For related discussions, see Nancy Scheper-Hughes, “The Primacy of the Ethical: Propositions for a Militant Anthropology,” Current Anthropology 36, 3 (June 1995): 409–40;
2. Paul Farmer, Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001);
3. Daniel Kerr, “‘We Know What the Problem Is’: Using Oral History to Develop a Collaborative Analysis of Homelessness From the Bottom Up,” Oral History Review 30, 1 (2003): 27–45;
4. Elizabeth Miller, “Building Participation in the Outreach for the Documentary The Water Front,” Journal of Canadian Studies 43, 1 (Winter 2009): 59–86.
5. Although our use of the term “ethnography of practice” is somewhat more broad, we are indebted to Paula Hamilton and Linda Shopes for its creation. See Hamilton and Shopes, eds., Oral History and Public Memories (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008), xiii.