Essays by people who have engaged in various qualitative research projects, describing their experiences with methodological and ethical struggles & the issues that emerged during their research process.

Contents: K.B. deMarrais, Introduction. J. Spring, Gold Mining History in Search of Personal Understanding. J. Habel, Precipitating Myself Into Just Manageable Difficulties: Reflections on Constructing an Intellectual Biography of Nicholas Hobbs. S.M. Oran, Traveling Light: A Student's Guide to Packing for Qualitative Research. D. Deyhle, The Role of the Applied Anthropologist: Between Schools and the Navajo Nation. C. Sleeter, Activist or Ethnographer? Researchers, Teachers, and Voice in Ethnographies That Critique. L.C. Velázquez, Personal Reflections on the Process: The Role of the Researcher and Transformative Research. J. Gamradt, "Studying Up" in Educational Anthropology. R.Q. Smith, Revisiting Juanita's Beauty Salon: An Ethnographic Study of an African-American Beauty Shop. K.B. deMarrais, Mucking Around in the Mud: Doing Ethnography With Yup'ik Eskimo Girls. L. Smith, Tracing Literacy Across Three Generations...Trying Not to Lose the Voices. K. Altork, You Never Know When You Might Want to Be a Redhead in Belize. K.D. Tunnell, Interviewing the Incarcerated: Personal Notes on Ethical and Methodological Issues. M. Eyring, How Close Is Close Enough?: Reflections on the Experience of Doing Phenomenology. M.J. Ronan Herzog, Teacher-Researcher: A Long and Winding Road From the Public School to the University. B.B. Swadener, M.M. Marsh, Reflections on Collaborative, and Not-So-Collaborative, Research in Early Childhood Settings. E. McIntyre, Who Is Taking Risks? Moving Toward Collaborative Research. D. Walsh, Incomplete Stories. M.D. LeCompte, Synonyms and Sequences: The Development of an Intellectual Autobiography.