Extraordinary encounters : authenticity and the interview /

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Imprint:New York : Berghahn Books, 2015.
Description:1 online resource (vi, 205 pages)
Language:English
Series:Methodology and history in anthropology ; volume 28
Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 28.
Subject:Interviewing in ethnology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Research.
Interviewing in ethnology.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12398480
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Other authors / contributors:Smith, Katherine, 1979- editor.
Staples, James, 1966- editor.
Rapport, Nigel, 1956- editor.
ISBN:9781782385905
1782385908
9781782385899
1782385894
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
English.
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Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Authenticity and the interview. New York : Berghahn Books, 2015 9781782385899