"An extraordinarily rich, provocative, and engaging conversation; one that invites--in fact demands--our participation." - Don Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Auto-ethnographies of Academic Practices, Donna J. Young and Anne Meneley
Part I: Initiations
1. Loyalty and Treachery in the Kalahari, Renée Sylvain
2. Doctors With Borders, Lesley Gotlib
3. Who Wears the Trousers in Vanuatu?, Maggie Cummings
Part II: Collaborations
4. Gatekeeper or Helpful Counsel? Practices and Perceptions in Academic Peer Review, Stephen Bocking
5. Teaching and Learning Across Borders, Julia Harrison and Anne Meneley
6. Ethnographys Edge in Development, Pauline Gardiner Barber
Part III: Interventions
7. Anthropologist and Accomplice in Botswana, Jacqueline Solway
8. The Torso in the Thames: Imagining Darkest Africa in the United Kingdom, Todd Sanders
9. White Devil as Expert Witness, Ted Swedenburg
Part IV: Disciplining the Academy
10. Team Diversity: An Ethnography of Institutional Values, Bonnie Urciuoli
11. Censorship, Surveillance, and Middle East Studies in the Contemporary United States, David A. McMurray
Part V: Departures
12. The Auto-ethnography That Can Never Be and the Activists Ethnography That Might Be, David Graeber
13. Writing Against the Native Point of View, Donna J. Young
14. An Anthropologist Undone, Camilla Gibb
Afterword: Our Subjects/Ourselves: A View from the Back Seat, Michael Lambek
List of Contributors
Index
Edited by Anne Meneley and Donna J. Young