Extraordinary Encounters : : Authenticity and the Interview / / ed. by Katherine Smith, James Staples, Nigel Rapport.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Caplan, Pat,; Lopes, Ana,; Niehaus, Isak,; Okely, Judith,; Rapport, Nigel,; Smith, Katherine,; Staples, James,; Trias i Valls, Àngels,
• HerausgeberIn: Rapport, Nigel,; Smith, Katherine,; Staples, James,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology ; 28
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (212 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction. The Interview as Analytical Category -- Chapter 1. The Transcendent Subject? Biography as a Medium for Writing ‘Life and Times’ -- Chapter 2. Using and Refusing Antiretroviral Drugs in South Africa: Towards a Biographical Approach -- Chapter 3. An ‘Up and Down Life’: Understanding Leprosy through Biography -- Chapter 4. Finding My Wit: Explaining Banter and Making the Effortless Appear in the Unstructured Interview -- Chapter 5. ‘Different Times’ and Other ‘Altermodern’ Possibilities: Filming Interviews with Children as Ethnographic ‘Wanderings’ -- Chapter 6. Dialogues with Anthropologists: Where Interviews Become Relevant -- Chapter 7. Talking and Acting for Our Rights: The Interview in an Action-Research Setting -- Epilogue. Extraordinary Encounter? The Interview as an Ironical Moment -- Notes on Contributors -- Index