Description: This appraisal reveals that interviewing techniques depend upon fundamental misapprehensions about the nature of the interview as a communicative event as well as the nature of the data that it produces.
Review Quotes: "His book provides an instructive examination of some of the ways in which our epistemological systems and modes of inquiry shape or distort the information we acquire in our research and the ways in which we interpret it." Sharon Sabsay, American Ethnologist