Introduction : producing fields, selves and anthropology / Maya Unnithan-Kumar and Geert De Neve -- 'What I want is for Florida orange growers to know why it is important for us to whale' : learning to be an anthropologist in the field / Barbara Bodenhorn -- The multi-sited ethnographer / Simon Coleman -- Others in and of the field : anthropology and knowledgeable persons / Narmala Halstead -- Hidden reflexivity : assistants, informants and the creation of anthropological knowledge / Geert De Neve -- Writing as a kind of anthropology : alternative professional genres / Anthony Good -- Among the crowds : learning anthropology and learning multidisciplinarity / Rachael Gooberman-Hill -- Sensing the field : kinship, gender and emotion in an anthropologist's way of knowing / Maya Unnithan-Kumar -- Participant experience : learning to be an acupuncturist, and not becoming one / Elisabeth Hsu -- 'Working in the metropolis' : reflections on gender and fieldwork in the city / Henrike Donner -- The silence in between : governmentality and the academic voice in Tibetan diaspora studies / Martin. A. Mills.