Ethnographic interview: science play in two acts and interpretation techniques
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Rogozin D.M. Ethnographic interview: science play in two acts and interpretation techniques. Interaction. Interview. Interpretation. 2018. Vol. 10. No. 16. P. 26-49. DOI: https://doi.org/10.19181/inter.2018.16.3 (in Russ.).
Abstract
The article is devoted to the aspects of the ethnographic interview treated as a specific form of research communication. It is submitted that the ethnographic interview is not just an oral communication of participants, but also the following interpretation of communicative situations, analytical revision of narrative into structured figures and graphs with in-depth description. The author presents the interview in the shape of the science play in two acts with four actions in each. On one side, the science play is a stylized revision of the real interview, so the dialogue among characters is not so different from the transcript of the interview. On the other side, the science play is the space for the intellectual discourse and educational practice. That is why the author adds the role of the commentator, who creates the scientific composition of the play by theoretical and methodological conceptualization of the dialogue. The article also discusses different variants of structuring and interpreting the ethnographic interview stages using the example of the given science play.
Keywords:
ethnographic interview, field interviewer, role of interviewer, research communication, interlocution, science play, question-answer communication
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Sexton J. D. (1980) [Rev.] The ethnographic interview — Spradley, J.P. // American Anthropologist. 1980. Vol. 82, no 4, pp. 937–938.
Spradley J. P. (1969) Guests never leave hungry: The autobiography of James Sewid, a Kwakiuti Indian. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969.
Roulston K. J. (2010) Reflective interviewing: A guide to theory and practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. [Ch. 1: Asking questions and individual interviews]
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Rogozin, D. M. (2018). Ethnographic interview: science play in two acts and interpretation techniques. Interaction. Interview. Interpretation, 10(16), 26-49. https://doi.org/10.19181/inter.2018.16.3
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Field work research
