Contents -- Editors -- Contributors -- Introduction by Mark Turin, Claire Wheeler and Eleanor Wilkinson -- I. Principles and Methods of Archiving and Conservation -- 1. The Archive Strikes Back: Effects of Online Digital Language Archiving on Research Relations and Property Rights / Thomas Widlok -- 2. Access and Accessibility at ELAR, A Social Networking Archive for Endangered Languages Documentation / David Nathan -- 3. Multiple Audiences and Co-Curation: Linking an Ethnographic Archive of Endangered Oral Traditions to Contemporary Contexts / Judith Aston and Paul Matthews -- II. Engagements and Reflections from the Field 4. Researchers as Griots? Reflections on Multimedia Fieldwork in West Africa / Daniela Merolla and Felix Ameka in collaboration with Kofi Dorvlo -- 5. American Indian Oral Literature, Cultural Identity and Language Revitalisation: Some Considerations for Researchers / Margaret Field -- 6. Ecuador's Indigenous Cultures: Astride Orality and Literacy / Jorge Gómez Rendón -- 7. From Shrine to Stage: A Personal Account of the Challenges of Archiving the Tejaji Ballad of Rajasthan / Madan Meena -- 8. Mongghul Ha Clan Oral History Documentation / Ha Mingzong, Ha Mingzhu, and C.K. Stuart -- Index.