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Corporate Author Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and the Commonwealth. Conference (2010 : Queen's University of Belfast), author.

Title The interview : an ethnographic approach / edited by Jonathan Skinner.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Berg, 2012.

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Edition English ed.
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 271 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series ASA. monographs, 0066-9679 ; 49
A.S.A. monographs ; 49.
Note "The volume represents best papers from the ASA annual conference held at Queen's University Belfast, Easter 2010"--Page ix.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents A four-part introduction to the interview : introducing the interview ; society, sociology and the interview ; anthropology and the interview ; anthropology and the interview edited / Jonathan Skinner -- The interview as a form of talking-partnership : dialectical, focussed, ambiguous, special / Nigel Rapport -- Ethnography is not participant observation : reflections on the interview as participatory qualitative research / Jenny Hockey and Martin Forsey -- Finding and mining the talk : negotiating knowledge and knowledge transfer in the field / Lisette Josephides -- The autobiographical narrative interview : a potential arena of emotional remembering, performance and reflection / Maruška Svašek and Markieta Domecka -- Eliciting the tacit : interviewing to understand bodily experience / Georgiana Gore, Géraldine Rix-Lièvre, Olivier Wathelet and Anne Cazemajou -- Difficult moments in the ethnographic interview : vulnerability, silence and rapport / Anne Montgomery -- Instances of inspiration : interviewing dancers and writers / Helena Wulff -- 'Angola calling' : a study of indexs of imagination in the interview / Madalina Florescu -- The contortions of forgiveness : betrayal, abandonment and narrative entrapment among the Harkis / Vincent Crapanzano -- Integrating interviews into quantitative domains : reaching the parts controlled trial can't reach / Alexandra Greene -- Recalling what was unspeakable : hunger in North Korea / Sandra Fahy -- Re-presenting Hopis : indigenous responses to the ethnographic interview / Nick McCaffery -- Epilogue : expectations, auto-narrative and beyond / Marilyn Strathern.
Summary This volume examines the use of interviews by placing the interview itself in the hot-seat, exploring its nature, techniques, and illustrative case studies. It also addresses key issues such as awkwardness, silence and censorship, and will appeal to social scientists and anthropologists using interviews in their research.
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Subject Interviewing in ethnology -- Congresses.
Interviewing in ethnology.
Ethnology -- Fieldwork -- Congresses.
Ethnology -- Fieldwork.
Interviewing -- Congresses.
Interviewing.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Skinner, Jonathan, 1970-
Other Form: Print version: Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and the Commonwealth. Conference (2010 : Queen's University of Belfast). Interview. English ed. London ; New York : Berg, 2012 9781847889409 (OCoLC)781207457
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