Thoughts about Ethnographic Interview: Comments
[Razmyshleniia ob etnograficheskom interv’iu: kommentarii]
Type of publication: Research Article
Submitted: 29.03.2022
Accepted: 30.04.2022
About author(s)
Dmitriy Baranov | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4129-7771 | dmitry.baranov@list.ru | Russian Museum of Ethnography (4/1 Inzhenernaia Str., St. Petersburg, 191186, Russia)
Dmitriy Kolyadov | http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2860-5517 | dkoliadov@gmail.com | Institute for Linguistic Studies, RAS (9 Tuchkov pereulok, St. Petersburg, 199053, Russia)
Pavel Kupriyanov | http//orcid.org/0000-0001-9856-3159 | kuprianov-ps@yandex.ru | Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences (32-a Leninsky prospect, Moscow, 119991, Russia)
Anna Sokolova | http//orcid.org/0000-0001-9120-8218 | annadsokolova@gmail.com | Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences (32-a Leninsky prospect, Moscow, 119991, Russia)
Tatiana Listova | http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2189-933X | listova.ta@mail.ru | Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences (32-a Leninsky prospect, Moscow, 119991, Russia)
Irina Razumova | http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5960-9772 | irinarazumova@yandex.ru | Barents Centre of the Humanities – the Branch of the Federal Research Centre “Kola Science Centre of the Russian Academy Sciences” (40a Akademgorodok, Apatity, 184209, Russia)
Aleksandra Kasatkina | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8827-9696 | alexkasatkina@ gmail.com | National Research University Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg (Soyuza Pechatnikov Str. 16, St. Petersburg, 190121, Russia)
Keywords
interview, participant observation, field methods, field conversation, speech context, dialogic theory
Abstract
This article presents critical comments and responses to Aleksandra Kasatkina’s essay “How Ethnographic Is Ethnographic Interview?” in which the author draws on her experience of fieldwork conversations with garden owners in the Leningrad region to discuss the question of how “ethnographic” the typical ethnographic interview is per se. She argues that fieldwork conversation, as an organic part of participant observation, deserves its own methods of analysis, and that such methods targeted specifically at the analysis of speech may help us receive better answers to the questions that ethnographers pose. This discussion features contributions by D.A. Baranov, D.M. Kolyadov, P.S. Kupriyanov, A.D. Sokolova, T.A. Listova, and I.A. Razumova.
Funding Information
This research was supported by the following institutions and grants:
Russian Science Foundation, https://doi.org/10.13039/501100006769 [grant no. 19-78-10076] (recipients P.S. Kupriyanov, A.D. Sokolova)
Barents Centre of the Humanities – the Branch of the Federal Research Centre “Kola Science Centre of the Russian Academy Sciences” (no. FMEZ-2022-0028) (recipient I.A. Razumova)
Citation
Baranov, D.A., D.M. Kolyadov, P.S. Kupriyanov, A.D. Sokolova, T.A. Listova, I.A. Razumova, and A.K. Kasatkina. 2022. Razmyshleniia ob etnograficheskom interv’iu: kommentarii [Thoughts about Ethnographic Interview: Comments]. Etnograficheskoe obozrenie 3: 88–123. https://doi.org/10.31857/S086954152203006X EDN: HVDIIP
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