Authenticity and the Interview

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.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782385894
• ISBN13: 9781782385899
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"