Ways of Asking,Ways of Telling |
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Authors: | Thomas J Csordas Christopher Dole Allen Tran Matthew Strickland Michael G Storck |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA;(2) Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Amherst College, Amherst, MA 01002, USA;(3) Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA;(4) Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA |
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Abstract: | The interpretive understanding that can be derived from interviews is highly influenced by methods of data collection, be
they structured or semistructured, ethnographic, clinical, life-history or survey interviews. This article responds to calls
for research into the interview process by analyzing data produced by two distinctly different types of interview, a semistructured
ethnographic interview and the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM, conducted with participants in the Navajo Healing Project.
We examine how the two interview genres shape the context of researcher-respondent interaction and, in turn, influence how
patients articulate their lives and their experience in terms of illness, causality, social environment, temporality and self/identity.
We discuss the manner in which the two interviews impose narrative constraints on interviewers and respondents, with significant
implications for understanding the jointly constructed nature of the interview process. The argument demonstrates both divergence
and complementarity in the construction of knowledge by means of these interviewing methods. |
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