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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Katherine, 1979- editor.

Staples, James, 1966- editor.

Rapport, Nigel, 1956- editor.

Series:

Methodology and history in anthropology ; Volume 28.

Methodology and History in Anthropology ; Volume 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interviewing in ethnology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, [New York] ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn, 2015.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

Extraordinary Encounters; Contents; Introduction - The Interview as Analytical Category; Chapter 1 - The Transcendent Subject?; Chapter 2 - Using and Refusing Antiretroviral Drugs in South Africa; Chapter 3 - An 'Up and Down Life'; Chapter 4 - Finding My Wit; Chapter 5 - 'Different Times' and Other 'Altermodern' Possibilities; Chapter 6 - Dialogues with Anthropologists; Chapter 7 - Talking and Acting for Our Rights; Epilogue - Extraordinary Encounter?; Notes on Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781782385905

1782385908

OCLC:

908553788