ABSTRACT
The introductory chapter presents the theme that the craft of ethnographic fieldwork is grounded in, and analytically realized through, site-specific field encounters and everyday interaction. Showcasing ethnographic positioning and related understandings, the chapters that follow feature the contours of the craft in contrasting field sites. In view is the discovery and documentation of diverse social worlds, neither of which is led by theoretical abstraction or filtered through transcendent research steps such as the familiar trope of entrée, trust, rapport, and departure. Site by site, the crafting process produces knowledge that is a reflexive artifact of the fieldwork in tow. The concepts of site-specificity, imagined subjectivity, procedural tolerance, and social worlds lead the way in a pedagogy of exemplification.
