Introduction. Contours of the craft / Jaber F. Gubrium –- Sites. Insider ethnography in professional boxing / Alex Stewart-Psaltis
Getting at the experience of confinement in detention / David Wästerfors
Working against social order in documenting imprisonment / Mahuya Bandyopadhyay
Site juxtaposition and constitutive comparison in provisional encampments / Andrew M. Jefferson –- Selves. Is ethnography only for early career researchers? / Tarja Pösö
Senior activists and age affiliations in ethnographic peering / Gary Alan Fine
Shifting codes, continual vetting and recurrent rapport-building in ethnographic fieldwork / Brittany Presson
Creating ethnographic space for “foreign brides ”to talk back / Hsiao-Chuan Hsia
Social worlds. Preschool social worlds in interactional context / John C. Pruit
The going concerns of ethnographic membership / James M. Thomas
When fieldwork comes home / Beatriz Reyes-Foster and Shannon K. Carter
Interpretive complexity in language-discordant fieldwork / Hilde Fiva Buzungu -– Afterword. Elaborating contours of the craft / James A. Holstein

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"Through a series of case studies, this book provides an understanding of the practice of ethnographic fieldwork in a variety of contexts, from everyday settings to formal institutions. Demonstrating that ethnography is best viewed as a series of site-specific challenges, it showcases ethnographic fieldwork as ongoing analytic engagement with concrete social worlds. From engagements with boxing and night life to preschooling and migratory encampments, portrayed is a process that is anything but a set of pre-packaged challenges and hurdles of simple-minded procedural tropes such as entrée, rapport and departure. Instead, ethnography emerges as what it has been from its beginnings: a rough-and-ready analytic matter of seeking understanding in unrecognized and diverse fields of interaction. Crafting Ethnographic Fieldwork will appeal to scholars and students across the social sciences with interests in the practice of ethnography and related questions of research methodology"--