Paloma Gay y Blasco is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, UK.

Huon Wardle is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Director of the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies at the University of St Andrews, UK.

How to Read Ethnography is an essential guide to approaching anthropological texts. This fully revised second edition includes fresh excerpts from key texts for analysis and comparison along with lucid explanations

Preface to the second edition Introduction: The concerns and distinctiveness of ethnography 1. Comparison: the ethnographic outlook 2. People in context 3. Relationships and meanings 4. Narrating the immediate 5. Ethnography as argument 6. Authors and authority 7. Taking a stance: theories for a changing world 8. Informants, interlocutors, collaborators Conclusion: Ethnography in the human conversation: a final remark