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What is an Ethnographic Interview: Thoughts at the Intersection of Anthropology and Psychiatry
Speaker
Bhrigupathi Singh
Date
Mon November 10th 2025, 3:30 - 5:00pm
Location
Building 50, Room 51A
**This event is open to those of the Stanford community ONLY**
**This event is open to those of the Stanford community ONLY**
❗️There will also be lunch with the speaker on the same day prior to the colloquium @12:30pm in room 51A❗️
This lecture examines a basic and yet uncertain ethnographic method, the interview, situated here in comparison to the psychiatric interview, in the context of fieldwork in a psychiatry department in Delhi (India). Reviewing important attempts to systematize narrative-based interviews as biomedical tools, this lecture explores what an ethnographic interview might be in its non-systematized and yet rigorous and teachable form, despite the impossibility of reducing ethnographic relatedness to a protocol or questionnaire.
