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| Notes on contributors | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: Exercises in reflexivity: situating theory in practice | |
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| Generating grounded theory | |
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| Learning how to speak of sadness | |
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| Recollecting good and bad days | |
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| Colorful writing: conducting and living with a tattoo ethnography | |
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| Working with sensitizing concepts | |
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| Improvising on sensitizing concepts | |
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| On developing and using concepts in an Icelandic field-research setting | |
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| Behind the conceptual scene of Student Life and Exams | |
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| How Murray Manor became an ethnography | |
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| Extending theoretical frames | |
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| Habitus as topic and tool: reflections on becoming a prizefighter | |
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| Researching alcoholics and alcoholism in American society | |
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| The development of leisure theory in three nature-challenge hobbies | |
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| Telling tales about how concepts develop: stories from ethnographic encounters with the Moog synthesizer | |
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| Conceptualizing community and social organization | |
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| The ethnography behind Defenders of the Faith | |
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| On piecing the puzzle: researching Hassidic Jews | |
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| Using a gestalt perspective to analyze children's worlds | |
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| Hookers, Rounders and Desk Clerks: encountering the reality of the hotel community | |
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| Challenging established wisdom | |
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| Making theories from water; or, finding stratification in competitive swimming | |
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| Solving the mysteries of shelter work for the battered woman | |
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| The path taken: opportunity, flexibility, and reflexivity in the field | |
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| Walking the talk: doing Gravity's Shadow | |
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| Theorizing from alternative data: documentary, historical, and autobiographical sources | |
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| Writing theory in(to) Last Writes | |
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| Conceptualizing a profession in process: The New Pediatrics revisited | |
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| The history, myth, and science of Masada: the making of an historical ethnography | |
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| Index | |