Extraordinary Encounters

Authenticity and the Interview

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

Av Katherine Smith, James Staples, Nigel Rapport

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Given the anthropological focus on ethnography as a kind of deep immersion, the interview poses theoretical and methodological challenges for the discipline. This volume explores those challenges and argues that the interview should be seen as a special, productive site of ethnographic encounter, a site of a very particular and important kind of knowing. In a range of social contexts and cultural settings, contributors show how the interview is experienced and imagined as a kind of space within which personal, biographic and social cues and norms can be explored and interrogated. The interview possesses its own authenticity, therefore—true to the persons involved and true to their moment of interaction—whilst at the same time providing information on human capacities and proclivities that is generalizable beyond particular social and cultural contexts.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2018-03-28
Mått152 x 229 x 12 mm
Vikt315 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieMethodology & History in Anthropology
Antal sidor212
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781785338175

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Introduction: The Interview as Analytical CategoryJames Staples and Katherine SmithChapter 1. The Transcendent Subject? Biography as a Medium for Writing ‘Life and Times’Pat CaplanChapter 2. Using and Refusing Antiretroviral Drugs in South Africa: Towards a Biographical ApproachIsak NiehausChapter 3. An ‘Up and Down Life’: Understanding Leprosy through BiographyJames StaplesChapter 4. Finding My Wit: Explaining Banter and Making the Effortless Appear in the Unstructured InterviewKatherine SmithChapter 5. ‘Different Times’ and Other ‘Altermodern’ Possibilities: Filming Interviews with Children as Ethnographic ‘Wanderings’Angels Trias i VallsChapter 6. Dialogues with Anthropologists: Where Interviews Become RelevantJudith OkleyChapter 7. Talking and Acting for Our Rights: The Interview in an Action-research SettingAna LopesEpilogue: Extraordinary Encounter? The Interview as an Ironical MomentNigel RapportNotes on Contributors

“…a diverse group of scholars who have a broad range of experience as ethnographers and whose work with interviews, life stories and biography highlight the extraordinariness of social encounters.” · Tamara Kohn, University of Melbourne“Each chapter is well written and has something interesting . . . to say about interviewing. . . All in all, a genuinely absorbing read which has prompted me to think about interviewing in new ways.” · Peter Collins, Durham University