ISBN:
9781782385905
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
212 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
Methodology & History in Anthropology 28
Keywords:
Theory & Methodology in Anthropology
Abstract:
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Interview as Analytical Category -- James Staples and Katherine Smith -- Chapter 1. The Transcendent Subject? Biography as a Medium for Writing 'Life and Times' -- Pat Caplan -- Chapter 2. Using and Refusing Antiretroviral Drugs in South Africa: Towards a Biographical Approach -- Isak Niehaus -- Chapter 3. An 'Up and Down Life': Understanding Leprosy through Biography -- James Staples -- Chapter 4. Finding My Wit: Explaining Banter and Making the Effortless Appear in the Unstructured Interview -- Katherine Smith -- Chapter 5. 'Different Times' and Other 'Altermodern' Possibilities: Filming Interviews with Children as Ethnographic 'Wanderings' -- Angels Trias i Valls -- Chapter 6. Dialogues with Anthropologists: Where Interviews Become Relevant -- Judith Okley -- Chapter 7. Talking and Acting for Our Rights: The Interview in an Action-research Setting -- Ana Lopes -- Epilogue: Extraordinary Encounter? The Interview as an Ironical Moment -- Nigel Rapport -- Notes on Contributors --
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