Field Stories presents and analyzes fieldwork stories shared in classrooms to demonstrate how ethnographic methods and analysis can be communicated more clearly to the next generation of students. The chapters are rich in detail, and written in clear narrative prose, highlighting the value of ethnographic data, and the enchantment of the field.

In Field Stories, William H. Leggett and Ida Fadzillah Leggett have pulled together a collection of ethnographic research and classroom experiences from around the world. Drawing on moments both unfamiliar and all too familiar to those accustomed to fieldwork, the contributors to this collection demonstrate in clear, relatable prose how intimate engagements with others in the field can present moments of rich ethnographic value that provide insight into global interconnections.

Introduction

William H. Leggett

Chapter 1: Children and the Experience of Mundane Violence: Unexpected Stories from the Field

Ida Fadzillah Leggett

Chapter 2: Stories from the Other Notebooks: The Poetics of Encounter in Post-War Croatia

Judith Pintar

Chapter 3: Trained Identities: Exploring Emergent Identities Aboard One Slow Moving Train

William H. Leggett

Chapter 4: Alabama

Derek Pardue

Chapter 5: Friends, Family, Informants: Fieldwork as Relationship

Angela Glaros

Chapter 6: Friendships, Fieldwork, and the (De)Construction of Knowledge

Daniel Mains

Chapter 7: Staying in the Field: Living Arrangements, Violence, and the Female Anthropologist

Denielle Elliott

Conclusion: Finding Truths in Different Forms

Ida Fadzillah Leggett