Extraordinary encounters : authenticity and the interview
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Extraordinary encounters : authenticity and the interview
（Methodology and history in anthropology, v. 28）
Berghahn Books, 2018 , c2015
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Includes bibliographical references and index
First published in 2015
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Description
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.
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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