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Extraordinary Encounters: Authenticity and the Interview

Extraordinary Encounters: Authenticity and the Interview

Paperback

Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology, Book 28

AnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 178533817X
ISBN13: 9781785338175
Publisher: Berghahn Books Inc
Published: Mar 28 2018
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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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