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Setting a New Standard: The Person‐Centered Interviewing and Observation of Robert I. Levy
Author(s) -
HOLLAN DOUGLAS
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
ethos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.783
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1548-1352
pISSN - 0091-2131
DOI - 10.1525/eth.2005.33.4.459
Subject(s) - interview , ethnography , work (physics) , sociology , psychology , epistemology , anthropology , philosophy , engineering , mechanical engineering
Robert I. Levy gave us a way of doing ethnographic and theoretical work that transcends his own exemplary studies of Tahiti and Nepal. I examine Levy's use of person‐centered interviewing and observation to elicit and analyze psychocultural phenomena, and I suggest why this approach remains valuable to us today.