What are new interview methods and practices in our new 'interview society' and how do they relate to traditional social science research? This volume interrogates the interview as understood, used - and under-used - by anthropologists.

AcknowledgementsAbout the Editor and ContributorsIntroduction A Fourt-part Introduction to the Interview: Introducing the Interview; Society, Sociology and the Interview; Anthropology and the Interview; Anthropology and the Interview - Edited. Jonathan Skinner (Queen's University Belfast, UK) Part One: Positioning The InterviewThe Interview as a Form of Talking-partnership: Dialectical, Focused, Ambiguous, Special. Nigel Rapport (St Andrews University, UK) Ethnography is Not Participant Observation: Reflections on the Interview as Participatory Qualitative Research. Jenny Hockey (University of Sheffield, UK) and Martin Forsey (University of Western Australia, Australia) Finding and Mining the Talk: Negotiating Knowledge and Knowledge Transfer in the Field. Lisette Josephides (Queen's University Belfast, UK)Part Two: Interview TechniquesThe Autobiographical Narrative Interview: A Potential Arena of Emotional Remembering, Performance and Reflection. Maruska Svasek and Markieta Domecka (Queen's University Belfast, UK) Eliciting the Tacit: Interviewing to Understand Bodily Experience. Georgiana Gore (Université Blaise Pascal, France), Géraldine Rix-Lieévre (Université Blaise Pascal, France), Olivier Wathelet (Institut Paul Bocuse, France) and Anne Cazemajou (Université Blaise Pascal, France)Difficult Moments in the Ethnographic Interview: Vulnerability, Silence and Rapport. Ann Montgomery (Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, UK)Part Three: Interview Cases Instances of Inspiration: Interviewing Dancers and Writers. Helena Wulff (Stockholm University, Sweden)'Angola Calling': A Study of Registers of Imagination in the Interview. Madalina Florescu (School of Oriental and African Studies, UK)The Contortions of Forgiveness: Betrayal, Abandonment, and Narrative Entrapment among the Harkis. Vincent Crapanzano (CUNY, USA)Integrating Interviews into Quantitive Domains: Reaching the Parts Controlled Trials Can't Reach. Alex Greene (University of Dundee, UK)Recalling What Was Unspeakable: Hunger in North Korea. Sandra Fahy (L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France)Re-presenting Hopis: Indigenous Responses to the Ethnographic Interview. Nick McCaffery (Independent Scholar, UK)Epilogue: Expectations, Auto-Narrative and Beyond. Marilyn Strathern (University of Cambridge, UK)ReferencesIndex

The interview is a key ethnographic method. This volume presents an overview of the latest debates on the interview as used by anthropologists. This cutting-edge international collection explores theory, introduces new interview techniques and raises new questions about interview practice.