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

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 205 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Methodology and history in anthropology ; volume 28
Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 28.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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.
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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Language English.
Subject Interviewing in ethnology.
Interviewing in ethnology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Smith, Katherine, 1979- editor.
Staples, James, 1966- editor.
Rapport, Nigel, 1956- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Authenticity and the interview. New York : Berghahn Books, 2015 9781782385899 (DLC) 2014033562 (OCoLC)896861727
ISBN 9781782385905 (electronic book)
1782385908 (electronic book)
9781782385899
1782385894