Resonant Ethnography: Understanding the World Through Writing

This book explores what it means--and what it takes--to write ethnographic texts that resonate with both fieldwork and readers. It approaches writing as a form of embodied thinking and encourages conceptual openness and a willingness to experiment. Drawing on exemplary texts and the authors' experiences as teachers and writers, it explores the importance of attentiveness, imagination, and ethical engagement. Grounded in anthropology and phenomenology, and inspired by literature, it weaves conceptual reflection with practical guidance and literary sensibility. Each chapter focuses on a key aspect of the writing process--such as time, voice, argument, and composition--while throughout the book, ambiguity, affect, and imagination are seen as generative of understanding. More than just a guide to writing, Resonant Ethnography is an invitation to think, feel, and imagine through writing, and to appreciate what ethnography can be in the world today.