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1 online resource (vi, 205 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Methodology and history in anthropology ; volume 28
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Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 28.
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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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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English. |
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Interviewing in ethnology.
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Interviewing in ethnology. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Smith, Katherine, 1979- editor.
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Staples, James, 1966- editor.
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Rapport, Nigel, 1956- editor.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Authenticity and the interview. New York : Berghahn Books, 2015 9781782385899 (DLC) 2014033562 (OCoLC)896861727 |
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9781782385905 (electronic book) |
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1782385908 (electronic book) |
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9781782385899 |
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1782385894 |
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