ABSTRACT
The anthropologist or sociologist gathers a large part of his research data through field interviews. Interviews may be of various types, ranging from the questionnaire administered in writing and the orally administered interview schedule of predetermined questions to the more freely structured interview common to studies in social anthropology. In the present chapter I shall give only incidental attention to questionnaires and interview schedules, since they are systematically discussed in a number of already available books. I shall concentrate upon the method in which the interviewer does not follow a standard order and wording of questions.
