The Hiking Interview: Engaging Communities in Emplaced Dialogue
Author(s): Danielle R. Raad
Year: 2020
Summary
This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Walking interviews are used in qualitative social science research in fields such as community planning, geography, and urban design. While moving around a relevant location, aspects of the natural landscape or built environment can prompt the ideas or memories of an interviewee. This poster will describe an interview methodology useful to public archaeologists, which entails interviewing people while walking or hiking around a historic or archaeological site. I will detail the workflow for linking audio recordings to GPS data to create interactive maps of interviews as well as strategies to spatially analyze the results. This method allows for insight into the significance of a historic site to a community, whether comprised of local residents, visitors, a descendent population, or another invested group. I will share examples from my own project on the 200-year old Summit House atop Mount Holyoke in Skinner State Park in Western Massachusetts.
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The Hiking Interview: Engaging Communities in Emplaced Dialogue. Danielle R. Raad. 2020 ( tDAR id: 457438)
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Keywords
General
interviewing
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Public Archaeology
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qualitative methods
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 901