Abstract
The book is introducing ethnography as a complex methodological-and-theoretical approach to reality. Unlike most of other social science methods, problems encountered in the field are not considered an obstacle to but on the contrary a source and medium of knowing in ethnography.
Incoherence, uncertainty and multiplicity of reality, as well as paradoxes and contradictions, create an unescapable field of inquiry, which requires creativity in writing and genres of representation. Readiness to experiment is the point of departure of any ethnographic work.
A panoply of methodological cases takes the reader to researchers' ""kitchen"" where ingredients of ethnographic knowing are weighted, mixed, backed and sometimes burned. Authors combine stories with theoretical reflection and, in some chapters, discuss specific ""problems"" they dealt with during various stages of fieldwork.