This book features the contributions of a wide range of researchers who consider the key research problems in their given field site and how they were managed. The selections give the novice researcher a sense of the problems, uncertainties and apprehensions that are part of research, as well as the benefit of the experiences that these researchers share in dealing with those issues.

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION An Invitation to the Field - Scott Grills Fieldwork and the Pragmatists′ Lesson PART TWO: PURSUING INTIMATE FAMILIARITY AND THE PROBLEM OF MEMBERSHIP Respecting the Human Condition - Robert Prus Pursuing Intersubjectivity in the Marketplace Doing Ethnographic Research in Jewish Orthodox Communities - William Shaffir The Neglected Role of Sociability The Ethnic Outsider - Robert A Stebbins The Hurdles of Anglophone Field Research on North American Francophones On Being Non-Partisan in Partisan Settings - Scott Grills Field Research among the Politically Committed PART THREE: ISSUES IN METHODOLOGICAL PRACTICE Navigating the Family Domain - Kerry Daly and Anna Dienhart Qualitative Field Dilemmas Experience, Methodological Observation and Theory - Dan Albas and Cheryl Albas A Blumerian Excursion Hanging Out with the Good ′Ole Boys, Gangsters and Other Disreputable Characters - Richard A Brymer Field Research, Quantitative Research and Exceptional Events PART FOUR: ETHICS, INTERVENTION AND EMOTIONALITY Organizational Ethics and Fieldwork Realities - Leslie Irvine Negotiating Ethical Boundaries in Codependents Anonymous Animal Passions - Clinton R Sanders The Emotional Experience of Doing Ethnography in Animal-Human Interaction Settings PART FIVE: ETHNOGRAPHIC TEXT AND ETHNOGRAPHIC VOICE Presenting Constructions of Identity and Divinity - Jenny Blain ásatrú and Oracular Seidhr Telling Tales, Writing Stories - Richard G Mitchell Jr and Kathy Charmaz Postmodernist Visions and Realist Images in Ethnographic Writing