"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