Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Prologue Introduction xi
5. An Overview of Ethnography
6. The Changing Story of Ethnography 3
7. Ethnographic Perspectives
8. Living and Writing Feminist Ethnographies 29
9. Musings on Critical Ethnography, Meanings, and Symbolic Violence 45
10. What is Interpretive Ethnography? 55
11. Postmodernism, Ethnography, and Communication Studies 65
12. An Ethics for Postcolonial Ethnography 77
13. The Beauty and Logic of Aesthetic Ethnography 87
14. Dialogue and Interview as Expressions of Ethnography
15. Ethnographic Interviewing as Contextualized Conversation 97
16. Contextualized Conversation 107
17. Hearing Voices/Learning Questions 119
18. Sighted, Blind, and In Between 127
19. Personal Narrative as an Expression of Ethnography
20. Ethnography as the Excavation of Personal Narrative 141
21. Telling the Story of Birth 153
22. Watching the Watchers 159
23. Short Stories as Expressions of Ethnography
24. Hands 175
25. He Touched, He Took 177
26. Happy to be Writing 185
27. The Millennium Waltz 189
28. Novels as Expressions of Ethnography
29. Geocommunication 195
30. Artifacts as Expressions of Ethnography
31. “Reality Ends Here” 219
32. Sense-Making Artifacts on the Margins of Cultural Spaces 231
33. Genealogy and Postcolonial Identities as Expressions of Ethnography
34. Genealogy as an Ethnographic Enterprise 243
35. In Search of Naunny’s Ethnicity 257
36. Rhythms of Dis-Location 271
37. Starvin’ Marvin’s Got an Injun 281
38. Future Directions 289
39. Contributors 291
40. Index 297