Ways of asking, ways of telling: A methodological comparison of ethnographic and research diagnostic interviews

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 29-55

  Csordas, Thomas J ^a   Dole, Christopher ^b   Tran, Allen ^a   Strickland, Matthew ^c   Storck, Michael G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AMHERST COLLEGE   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Interview methodology; Narrative data; Navajo healing; Sociolinguistics; Structured Clinical Interview for DSM

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CAUSALITY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 75749131524     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: 1573076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-009-9160-4     Document Type: Article

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