Peter Collins received his PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Manchester in 1994 and is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Durham University. He was previously a Lecturer in Development Studies at the University of Manchester. He is the author of numerous articles, and his primary research interests are religion, space and place, narrative theory and qualitative methods.

• ProloguePeter Collins and Anselma GallinatChapter 1. The Ethnographic Self as Resource: an IntroductionPeter Collins and Anselma GallinatPART I: BEING SELF AND OTHER: ANTHROPOLOGISTS AT HOMEChapter 2. Playing the Native Card: the Anthropologist as Informant in Eastern GermanyAnselma GallinatChapter 3. Foregroundingthe Self in Fieldwork among Rural Women in CroatiaLynette Sikic-MicanovicChapter 4. Some Reflections on the ‘Enchantments’ of Village Life, or Whose Story is This?Anne Kathrine LarsenChapter 5. The Ethics of Participant Observation: Personal Reflections on Fieldwork in EnglandNigel RapportPART II: WORKING ON/WITH/THROUGH MEMORYChapter 6. Ethnographers as Language Learners: From Oblivion and Towards an EchoAlison PhippsChapter 7. Leading Questions and Body Memories: a Case of Phenomenology and Physical Ethnography in the Dance InterviewJonathan SkinnerChapter 8. Dualling Memories: Twinship and the Disembodiment of IdentityDona Lee Davis and Dorothy I. DavisChapter 9. Remembering and the Ethnography of Children’s SportsNoel DyckChapter 10. Gardening in Time: Happiness and Memory in American HorticultureJane Nadel-KleinPART III: ETHNOGRAPHIC SELVES THROUGH TIMEChapter 11. The Role of Serendipity and Memory in Experiencing FieldsTamara KohnChapter 12. Serendipities, Uncertainties and Improvisations in Movement and MigrationVered AmitChapter 13. On Remembering and Forgetting in Writing and FieldworkSimon ColemanChapter 14. The Ethnographic Self as Resource?Peter CollinsChapter 15. Epilogue: What a Story we Anthropolgists Have to Tell!James W. FernandezNotes on ContributorsIndex

“This book is recommended as useful for anyone writing ethnography in that it acknowledges the difficulties of engaging in anthropology, but also its challenges and rewards compared to other disciplines.” • Anthropological Notebooks“…an excellent collection of anthropological autobiographical essays focusing on the positionality and resource of the self in ethnography… The essays are engaging and well written… [and] remind me of some of those classic anthropological / ethnographic collections – interesting in their own right to read, but also serving as a good teaching resource.” • Amanda Coffey, Cardiff University