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Extraordinary encounters : authenticity and the interview /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Smith, Katherine, 1979- (Editor), Staples, James, 1966- (Editor), Rapport, Nigel, 1956- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2015.
Series:Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 28.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.