Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-319) and index.
1. Meeting qualitative inquiry -- 2. Research design and other prestudy tasks: doing what is good for you -- 3. Being there: developing understanding through participant observation, documents, and visual research -- 4. Making words fly: developing understanding through interviewing -- 5. Field relations: researcher roles, rapport and reflexivity -- 6. But is it ethical?: considering what's "right" -- 7. Finding your story: data analysis -- 8. Crafting your story: writing up qualitative data -- 9. Improvising a song of the world: arts based research -- 10. The continuing search