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.
| ISBN: | 9781782385899 |
| Publication date: | 1st March 2015 |
| Author: | Katherine Smith |
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 212 pages |
| Series: | Methodology & History in Anthropology |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural anthropology Social research and statistics |
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.
Extraordinary Encounters features in the following genres: Social and cultural anthropology, Social research and statistics
Extraordinary Encounters is available in Hardback
Extraordinary Encounters was written by Katherine Smith and published by Berghahn Books
Extraordinary Encounters has 212 pages
Yes it is part of Methodology & History in Anthropology series
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