title: Taking humor seriously: talking about drinking in Native American focus groups.
abstract: Focus groups provide a source of data that highlight community ideas on a topic of interest. How interview data will be utilized varies by project. With this in mind, we identify ways that focus group data from a particular population (Native American) articulate a health issue of individual tribal concern (alcohol consumption). Taking our analytic framework from linguistics, one of the four fields of inquiry in anthropology, we examine format ties and the performance of humor as stylistic features of tribal focus groups and illustrate how linguistic devices can be used in analyzing aspects of adolescent and adult drinking. Focus group data require systematic review and analysis to identify useful findings that can lead to inquiry points to initiate collaborative work with local experts before the data can be developed and configured into effective program initiatives.
authors: School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA. keith.bletzer@asu.edu
authors: Keith V
authors: KV
authors: Bletzer
authors: Nicole P
authors: NP
authors: Yuan
authors: Mary P
authors: MP
authors: Koss
authors: Mona
authors: M
authors: Polacca
authors: Emery R
authors: ER
authors: Eaves
authors: David
authors: D
authors: Goldman
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