Qualitative research, especially ethnography, has seen a paradigm shift since 1968. This so-called 'Third Moment' was concerned with the critical issue of the textual representation of ethnographic work. There was a call for a turn towards texts that mirrored the messiness of social life, that were faithful to the many voices of social worlds, in which the artfulness of ethnographic writing was manifest and in which the ethnographer was visibly present in the text.

Representing Ethnography brings together into one set all the important material on this 'rhetorical turn' in qualitative research. Many of the critiques of the rhetorical turn are particularly hard to obtain and have never been gathered together in an accessible way.

Volume I focuses on the contexts and controversies of this type of discourse.

Volume II covers the reading of qualitative research in a range of disciplines, such as sociology, anthropology and history, and gives classic examples of the ways in which text can be read.

Volume III examines the rhetorical turn in terms of analysis and voice.

Volume IV showcases how ethnographic realities are represented to give readers a good coverage of all the possibilities.

Volume 1: Contexts and Controversies
Introduction - 1. Paul Atkinson and Sara Delamont
Functionalists write too - 2. Boon, J. A.
Stories and Sociology - 3. Davis, F.
Looking both ways - 4. Herzfeld, M.
Styles of reporting qualitative field research - 5. Lofland, J.
Slide show: Evans-Pritchard¿s African Transparencies - 6. Geertz, C.
The emergence of Self-consciousness in Ethnography - 7. Nash, D. and Wintrob, R.
On the writing of ethnography - 8. Crapanzano, V.
The literary rhetoric of science: comedy and pathos in drinking driver research - 9. Gusfield, J.
The analogical tradition and the emergence of dialogical Anthropology - 10. Tedlock, D.
What written knowledge does - 11. Bazerman, C.
Dialectical Irony - 12. Brown, R.H.
On ethnographic Surrealism - 13. Clifford, J.
Writing ethnography - 14. Atkinson, P.A.
On ethnographic authority - 15. Clifford, C. J.
Putting facts together - 16. Law, J. and Williams, R.J.
From rapport to under erasure - 17. Marcus, G.E.
The Rhetoric of ethnographic holism - 18. Thornton, R.J.
Ethnography without tears - 19. Roth, P.A.
Rhetoric and the authority of ethnography - 20. Sangren, P.S.
The Postmodern turn in anthropology - 21. F.E. Mascia-Lees et al
Make me reflexive - but not yet: strategies for managing essential reflexivity in ethnographic discourse - 22. Watson, G.
Volume 2: Reading Qualitative Research
The rhetoric of economics - 23. McCloskey, D.
Textual Persuasion - 24. Yearley, S.
Irony: a methodological theory - 25. Anderson, D.C. and Sharrock, W.W.
Confronting ethnography¿s crisis of representation - 26. Denzin, N.K.
Four ways to improve the craft of fieldwork - 27. Emerson, R.M.
Ethnographies as texts - 28. Marcus, G.E. and Gushman, D.
The ¿crisis¿ in representation - 29. Flaherty, M.
Beyond Malinowski and after Writing Culture - 30. Marcus, G.E.
The crisis in representation: a brief history - 31. Flaherty, M.G.
The sky is not falling - 32. Manning, P.K.
Anthropology as a kind of writing - 33. Spencer, J.
On ethnographic self-fashioning: Conrad and Malinowski - 34. Clifford, J.
Goffman¿s poetics - 35. Atkinson, P.A.
Sarcasm, satire and irony as voices in Goffman¿s Asylums - 36. Fine, G.A. and Martini, D.D.
Out of context - 37. Strathern, M. et al.
Volume 3: Analysis and Voice in Qualitative Research
Qualitative data analysis - 38. Coffey, A., Holbrook, B. and Atkinson, P.
Deja entendu: The liminal qualities of anthropological fieldnotes - 39. Jackson, J.E.
On writing field notes - 40. Wolfinger
Representing discourse: The Rhetoric of Transcription - 41. Mishler, E.G.
Qualitative Research and translation dilemmas - 42. Temple and Young
Abduction as the type of inference - 43. Richardson and Kramer
Fear of Offending - 44. Hoskins and Stoltz
The presentation of everyday life: some textual strategies for ¿adequate ethnography¿ - 45. Stoddart, K.
¿Dear Researcher¿ - 46. Letherby and Zdrodwski
Gender, the personal and the voice of scholarship - 47. Fleischman
Problems of editing ¿first-person¿ sociology - 48. Blauner, B.
A taste for the other - 49. Dominguez, V.
51. Moore, S.F. - 50. Narayan, K.How native is the native anthropologist?
Explaining the present: Theoretical dilemmas in processional ethnography
The collective story: postmodernism and the writing of sociology - 52. Richardson, L.
Falling through the ¿savage slot¿ - 53. Austin-Broos, D.J.
Troubles in the field - 54. Fortier, A-M.
Storytelling and the Interpretation of Meaning in Qualitative Research - 55. Bailey, P.H. and Tilley, S.
Studying the self - 56. Saukko
Beyond "subjectivity" - 57. Kreiger, S.
Writing culture, writing feminism - 58. Gordon, D.
Defining feminist ethnography - 59. Visweswaran, K.
Volume 4: Writing and Representation
What¿s wrong with ethnography? - 60. Hammersley
Doing ethnography, writing ethnography - 61. Stanley
Autonomy and credibility: Voice as method - 62. Cohen, I.J. and Rogers, M.F.
The theater of ethnography - 63. Mienczakowski, J.
Reading and Writing Performance - 64. Denzin
The sea monster: An ethnographic drama - 65. Richardson, L. and Lockeridge, E.
Fiction and ethnography - 66. Richardson and Lockridge
Balancing the Berimbau - 67. Stephens and Delamont
The fatal flaw - 68. Sparkes, A.
Finding the Limits - 69. Walford
Analytic Autoethnography - 70. Anderson
Analysing analytic autoethnography - 71. Ellis and Bochner
Show me a sign - 72. Brady
A walk in the olive grove - 73. Tierney
The anthropologists¿s son - 74. Murphy
On auto/biography in sociology - 75. Stanley, L.
Plenty confidence in myself: The initiation of a white woman scholar into Haitian vodou - 76. Brown, K. Mc
Three women, one struggle: Anthropology, performance and pedagogy - 77. Harrison, F.
Performing the text - 78. Paget, M.A.
¿I yam what I am¿ - 79. Jeffries, R.B.
Text bites and the R. word - 80. Linnekin, J.
Deconstructing dissemination - 81. Barnes et al.
Storying Schools - 82. Sikes
Dissolution and reconstitution of self - 83. Kondo, D.K.
The validity of angels - 84. Lather, P.A.
The Collective Story - 85. Richardson
Survival in the field: Implications of personal experiences in fieldwork - 86. Clarke, M.
Sociological Introspection and emotional experience - 87. Ellis, C.