Rosa Maria Perez is a senior researcher at the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA), ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal, and a guest professor of Anthropology at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), India.

Lina M. Fruzzetti is an anthropologist at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

Introduction 1. Traversing the otaak: Gendered fieldwork and boundaries of language 2. Familiar domesticity, unfamiliar homes: Ethnography among the homeless homemakers of Ahmedabad 3. Knowing and the production of knowledge: Sharing the field with Bengali women 4. Witnessing vulnerability and the vulnerable witness: Gendering emotions in fieldwork 5. Bengali daughter, Bengali child: The roles and routes to understanding childhood 6. Forging identities, rethinking culture: Field work 'among' 'South Asians' in my backyard and across the oceans 7. A gendered field in a transnational setting: Portuguese Hindu-Gujaratis 8. Notes from the field: Dalit women and the ambiguity of anthropological analysis 9. Fenceless fields As a conclusion

This book familiarises readers with a new way to treat the subject of gender, foregrounding the real voices of women, their experiences doing ethnographic work, and their courage in sharing their stories publicly for the first time in the context of India.