Crafting Ethnographic Fieldwork

Explores the theory, method and practice of ethnographic research focused on social worlds discovered in contrasting field sites, from the mundane such as street corners to the formally organized such as detention centers.Addresses the question of social organization on both analytical and procedural fronts, as well as the complexity of knowledge captured in ethnographic fieldwork.Includes contributions from a broad range of international scholars, from seasoned to emerging, who have participated in and observed in situ the fields of interaction in the book.