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The majority of the works touching on interviews in the social sciences examine them from the point of view of the researcher, of the inveterate collector rather than of that of the participant. But how do interviews affect our interviewees ? Having recently occupied the place of a respondent, in other words that of the “other”, in a sociological study, I shall seize here this opportunity to put forward some remarks about aspects of the interview which in my opinion are rarely seem questioned within the ethnologists community, and to put the focus on the singular nature of the interview relationship.