Narrative and Experience: Illness in the Context of an Ethnographic Interview

CRIVOS, MARTA

Oral History Review

University of California Press

Lugar: 29/2 (Summer/Fall 2002):13-15.; Año: 2002 vol. 29 p. 13 - 15

0094-0798

In the climate of methodological optimism of 1960s and 1970s the mere deed of going to the countryside with the tape recorder and finding an expert in the chosen field used to guarantee an ethnografic work academically acceptable. My encouter with Oral History has to do with my frustration upon finding such tools were not sufficient to achieve the sought after insight into the local ideas about health and sickness in a rural community in Northwest Argentina