The interview : an ethnographic approach /

This volume examines the use of interviews by placing the interview itself in the hot-seat, exploring its nature, techniques, and illustrative case studies. It also addresses key issues such as awkwardness, silence, and censorship, and will appeal to social scientists and anthropologists using inter...

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Corporate Author: Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and the Commonwealth. Conference
Other Authors: Skinner, Jonathan, 1970- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New Delhi ; New York ; Sydney : Bloomsbury, [2013]
Series:A.S.A. monographs ; 49.
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Table of Contents:
  • A four-part introduction to the interview : introducing the interview; society, sociology, and the interview; anthropology and the interview; anthropology and the interview, edited / Jonathan Skinner
  • The interview as a form of talking-partnership : dialectical, focussed, ambiguous, special / Nigel Rapport
  • Ethnography is not participant observation : reflections on the interview as participatory qualitative research / Jenny Hockey and Martin Forsey
  • Finding and mining the talk : negotiating knowledge and knowledge transfer in the field / Lisette Josephides
  • The autobiographical narrative interview : a potential arena of emotional remembering, performance, and reflection / Maruška Svašek and Markieta Domecka
  • Eliciting the tacit : interviewing to understand bodily experience / Georgiana Gore, Géraldine Rix-Lièvre, Olivier Wathelet, and Anne Cazemajou
  • Difficult moments in the ethnographic interview : vulnerability, silence, and rapport / Anne Montgomery
  • Instances of inspiration : interviewing dancers and writers / Helena Wulff
  • 'Angola calling' : a study of registers of imagination in the interview / Madalina Florescu
  • The contortions of forgiveness : betrayal, abandonment, and narrative entrapment among the Harkis / Vincent Crapanzano
  • Integrating interviews into quantitative domains : reaching the parts controlled trial can't reach / Alexandra Greene
  • Recalling what was unspeakable : hunger in North Korea / Sandra Fahy
  • Re-presenting Hopis : indigenous responses to the ethnographic interview / Nick McCaffery
  • Epilogue : expectations, auto-narrative, and beyond / Marilyn Strathern.