Contemporary Ethnography

A purpose of this series is to encourage ethnographic writing that is flexible enough to give a voice to the people whose lives it records, to recreate those lives rather than merely describe them, and to encompass in this recreation the complexity, ambiguity, and emotion that are central to human experience. This flexibility can be achieved through the use of narration, first person and multiple points of view, dialogue, descriptive imagery, and other literary techniques.

Series Editor:
Alma Gottlieb
Professor of Anthropology and African Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Founding Editor:
Kirin Narayan
Professor of Anthropology, Australian National University

Staff Editorial Contact:
Elisabeth Maselli, Senior Editor
emaselli@upenn.edu