Extraordinary encounters

Extraordinary encounters: authenticity and the interview

by Rapport, Nigel Smith, Katherine Staples, James

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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…

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  • Full title :Extraordinary encounters : authenticity and the interview / edited by Katherine Smith, James Staples, and Nigel Rapport.

Summary

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 intervie.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2015.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Berghahn Books
  • Place of Publication:New York
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2015.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (vi, 205 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781782385905, 1782385908
  • oclc:ocn908553788
  • LC Classification:GN346.3
  • Dewey Decimal:305.8

Table of Contents

Introduction : the interview as analytical category / James Staples and Katherine Smith -- The transcendent subject? : biography as a medium for writing 'life and times' / Pat Caplan -- Using and refusing antiretroviral drugs in south africa : towards a biographical -- Approach / Isak Niehaus -- An 'up and down life' : understanding leprosy through biography / James Staples -- Finding my wit : explaining banter and making the effortless appear in the -- Unstructured interview / Katherine Smith -- 'Different times' and other 'altermodern' possibilities : filming interviews with children as ethnographic 'wanderings' / Angels Trias i Valls -- Dialogues with anthropologists: where interviews become relevant / Judith Okley -- 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.

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Subjects

Entretiens (Ethnologie) Interviewing in ethnology SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race… SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies Social science research

Writers

Rapport, Nigel Smith, Katherine Staples, James

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