Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. INTRODUCTION / Ethnographic Immersion and the Study of Politics 1
6. PART ONE Two Traditions of Political Ethnography
7. ONE Ethnography of Politics: Foundations, Applications, Prospects 23
8. TWO How to Tell an Axe Murderer: An Essay on Ethnography, Truth, and Lies 53
9. THREE Ethnography as Interpretive Enterprise 75
10. PART TWO First-Person Research
11. FOUR When Nationalists Are Not Separatists: Discarding and Recovering Academic Theories while Doing Fieldwork in the Basque Region of Spain 95
12. FIVE Ethnographic Research in the Shadow of Civil War 119
13. Six The Political in Political Ethnography: Dispatches from the Kill Floor 143
14. PART THREE Ethnography’s Varied Contributions
15. SEVEN Scholars as Citizens: Studying Public Opinion through Ethnography 163
16. EIGHT Ethnography and Causality: Sorcery and Popular Culture in the Congo 183
17. NINE The Ethnographic Sensibility: Overlooked Authoritarian Dynamics and Islamic Ambivalences in West Africa 201
18. TEN Participant Observation, Politics, and Power Relations: Nicaraguan Mothers and U.S. Casino Waitresses 217
19. PART FOUR Placing Ethnography in the Discipline
20. ELEVEN Ethnography and the Study of Latin American Politics: An Agenda for Research 237
21. TWELVE When You Can See the Sky through Your Roof: Policy Analysis from the Bottom Up 255
22. THIRTEEN Dear Author, Dear Reader: The Third Hermeneutic in Writing and Reviewing Ethnography 275
23. CONCLUSION What Kind(s) of Ethnography Does Political Science Need? 303
24. WORKS CITED 319
25. CONTRIBUTORS 351
26. INDEX 357