Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. PROLOGUE vii
4. Chapter 1 THE ETHNOGRAPHIC SELF AS RESOURCE: AN INTRODUCTION 1
5. PART I BEING SELF AND OTHER: ANTHROPOLOGISTS AT HOME
6. Chapter 2 PLAYING THE NATIVE CARD: THE ANTHROPOLOGIST AS INFORMANT IN EASTERN GERMANY 23
7. Chapter 3 FOREGROUNDING THE SELF IN FIELDWORK AMONG RURAL WOMEN IN CROATIA 45
8. Chapter 4 SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE ‘ENCHANTMENTS’ OF VILLAGE LIFE, OR WHOSE STORY IS THIS? 63
9. Chapter 5 THE ETHICS OF PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION: PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON FIELDWORK IN ENGLAND 78
10. PART II WORKING ON/WITH/THROUGH MEMORY
11. Chapter 6 ETHNOGRAPHERS AS LANGUAGE LEARNERS: FROM OBLIVION AND TOWARDS AN ECHO 95
12. Chapter 7 LEADING QUESTIONS AND BODY MEMORIES: A CASE OF PHENOMENOLOGY AND PHYSICAL ETHNOGRAPHY IN THE DANCE INTERVIEW 111
13. Chapter 8 DUALLING MEMORIES: TWINSHIP AND THE DISEMBODIMENT OF IDENTITY 129
14. Chapter 9 REMEMBERING AND THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF CHILDREN’S SPORTS 150
15. Chapter 10 GARDENING IN TIME: HAPPINESS AND MEMORY IN AMERICAN HORTICULTURE 165
16. PART III ETHNOGRAPHIC SELVES THROUGH TIME
17. Chapter 11 THE ROLE OF SERENDIPITY AND MEMORY IN EXPERIENCING FIELDS 183
18. Chapter 12 SERENDIPITIES, UNCERTAINTIES AND IMPROVISATIONS IN MOVEMENT AND MIGRATION 200
19. Chapter 13 ON REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING IN WRITING AND FIELDWORK 215
20. Chapter 14 THE ETHNOGRAPHIC SELF AS RESOURCE? 228
21. Chapter 15 EPILOGUE: WHAT A STORY WE ANTHROPOLOGISTS HAVE TO TELL! 246
22. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 253
23. INDEX 257