Extraordinary Encounters: Authenticity and the Interview (Methodology and History in Anthropology, 28) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178533817X ISBN 13: 9781785338175

Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 178533817X
• ISBN 13: 9781785338175
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 212
• Herausgeber: Smith Katherine, Staples James, Rapport Nigel
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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