The Interview

Acknowledgements About the Editor and Contributors Introduction A Fourt-Part Introduction to the Interview: Introducing the Interview Society, Sociology and the Interview Anthropology and the Interview Anthropology and the Interview Edited by Jonathan Skinner (Queen's University Belfast, UK) Part One: Positioning The Interview The 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 Techniques The 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 (Universit Blaise Pascal, France), G raldine Rix-Lie vre (Universit Blaise Pascal, France), Olivier Wathelet (Institut Paul Bocuse, France) and Anne Cazemajou (Universit 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

Jonathan Skinner is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast, UK.

Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. -- E. Pappas, Robert Morris University CHOICE