ABSTRACT
This quotation from William Least-Heat Moon (1982:27) is a piece of fine writing, and its relevance to research may not seem immediately obvious. This chapter is about types of writing that need to be done-and those types are rather like the progression to the s even-calendar café. Ethnographers need to do hurried private writing quite unsuitable for outsiders to read, which can be as bad as the food in the ‘no-calendar’ café, and working papers like the ‘threecalendar’ place, and superb published work like places where we can eat the ‘ho-made pie’.
