List of Contributors. Introduction. Chapter 1 What's (still) wrong with ethnography?. Chapter 2 The vitality of ethnographic research on race. Chapter 3 On the value of Marxism in the understanding and analysis of social class in educational ethnography and the misunderstanding of class as an epistemological category by critics of Marxist and other critical traditions. Chapter 4 Ethnography and the myth of participant observation. Chapter 5 Dual ontologies and new ecologies of knowledge: rethinking the politics and poetics of `touch'. Chapter 6 Ethnography as dangerous, sad, and dirty work. Chapter 7 Naughty knickers, stick-on nipples and Mrs Doubtfire: The `humourous' talk of post-mastectomy women. Chapter 8 Envisioning undocumented historias: Evoking a critical performance ethnography. Chapter 9 How could you possibly know anything about that? Methodological congruence in the conduct of life history research. Chapter 10 Technology and the end of ethnography. Subject Index. Studies in Qualitative Methodology. Studies in Qualitative Methodology. Copyright page.

Addresses continuities and innovations within the ethnographic canon. This title uses Hammersley's (1991) book "What's Wrong with Ethnography" to open and situate the debate, and engages with contemporary debates and arguments on both sides of the Atlantic.