Composing ethnography : alternative forms of qualitative writing / Carolyn Ellis and Arthur P. Bochner, editors.

Introduction: talking over ethnography / Arthur P. Bochner and Carolyn Ellis
Autobiology / David Payne
A secret life in a culture of thinness: reflections on body, food, and bulimia / Lisa M. Tillman-Healy
My mother is mentally retarded / Carol Rambo Ronai
Thrown overboard: the human costs of health care rationing / Aliza Kolker. The life boat is fraught: reflections on 'Thrown overboard' / R. Ruth Linden
Collecting ourselves at the end of the century / Mark Neumann
Reconstructing apsaras from memory: six thoughts / Judith Hamera
Kaleidoscope: the same and different / Deborah A. Austin
Speech lessons / Laurel Richardson
Maternal connections / Carolyn Ellis
An ethnographic act: the construction of consensual theatre / Jim Mienczakowski
Devil, not-quite-white, rootless cosmopolitan: tsuris in Latin America, the Bronx, and the USSR / Marc Edelman
'She changes everything she touches': ethnographic journeys of self-discovery / Tanice G. Foltz and Wendy Griffin
Silent voices: a subversive reading of child sexual abuse / Karen V. Fox
Once my father traveled west to California / Richard Quinney
Open-ending: readers talk back.