Extraordinary Encounters

Authenticity and the Interview
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78533-817-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 315 g

Reihe: Methodology & History in Anthropology

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 interview possesses its own authenticity, therefore—true to the persons involved and true to their moment of interaction—whilst at the same time providing information on human capacities and proclivities that is generalizable beyond particular social and cultural contexts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Katherine

Staples, James

Rapport, Nigel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Theorie und Methoden der Ethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Interview as Analytical Category

James Staples and Katherine Smith

Chapter 1. The Transcendent Subject? Biography as a Medium for Writing ‘Life and Times’

Pat Caplan

Chapter 2. Using and Refusing Antiretroviral Drugs in South Africa: Towards a Biographical Approach

Isak Niehaus

Chapter 3. An ‘Up and Down Life’: Understanding Leprosy through Biography

James Staples

Chapter 4. Finding My Wit: Explaining Banter and Making the Effortless Appear in the Unstructured Interview

Katherine Smith

Chapter 5. ‘Different Times’ and Other ‘Altermodern’ Possibilities: Filming Interviews with Children as Ethnographic ‘Wanderings’

Angels Trias i Valls

Chapter 6. Dialogues with Anthropologists: Where Interviews Become Relevant

Judith Okley

Chapter 7. 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



Notes on Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Staples, James
James Staples is Senior Lecturer in anthropology at Brunel University London, author of Peculiar People, Amazing Lives (Orient Longman, 2007) and Leprosy in India: Journeys With A Tamil Brahmin (Lexington Books, 2014), editor of Livelihoods at the Margins (Left Coast Press, 2007) and two recent volumes on suicide. He has published numerous journal articles and chapters on his work in South India.

Rapport, Nigel
Nigel Rapport is Professor of Anthropological, Philosophical and Film Studies at the University of St. Andrews, and founding director of the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies. His publications include Of Orderlies and Men: Hospital Porters Achieving Wellness at Work (Carolina Academic, 2008) and Anyone, the Cosmopolitan Subject of Anthropology (Berghahn, 2012).

Smith, Katherine
Katherine Smith is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. She has carried out ethnographic fieldwork in the north of England on the subjects of fairness and equality, social policy, social class, political correctness and humour. She is author of Fairness, Class and Belonging in Contemporary England (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).

Katherine Smith is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. She has carried out ethnographic fieldwork in the north of England on the subjects of fairness and equality, social policy, social class, political correctness and humour. She is author of Fairness, Class and Belonging in Contemporary England (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).