Extraordinary encounters: authenticity and the interview
by Rapport, Nigel Smith, Katherine Staples, James
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…
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- Full title :Extraordinary encounters : authenticity and the interview / edited by Katherine Smith, James Staples, and 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.
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- Publication Date:2015.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Berghahn
- Place of Publication:New York [N.Y.]
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 v. (vi, 205 p.) : : illustrations, couv. illustrations en coul. ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781782385899, 1782385894
- oclc:on1037565609
- LC Classification:GN
- Dewey Decimal:301
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