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...

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