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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814142503321

Titolo

Extraordinary encounters : authenticity and the interview / / edited by Katherine Smith, James Staples and Nigel Rapport

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78238-590-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 p.)

Collana

Methodology and History in Anthropology ; ; Volume 28

Disciplina

305.8

Soggetti

Interviewing in ethnology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Extraordinary Encounters; Contents; Introduction - The Interview as Analytical Category; Chapter 1 - The Transcendent Subject?; Chapter 2 - Using and Refusing Antiretroviral Drugs in South Africa; Chapter 3 - An 'Up and Down Life'; Chapter 4 - Finding My Wit; Chapter 5 - 'Different Times' and Other 'Altermodern' Possibilities; Chapter 6 - Dialogues with Anthropologists; Chapter 7 - Talking and Acting for Our Rights; Epilogue - Extraordinary Encounter?; Notes on Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 intervie