Acknowledgments 1. Introduction. New Writers of the Cultural Sage: From Postmodern Theory Shock to Critical Praxis Stephen Gilbert Brown and Sidney I. Dobrin I. Theoretical and Rhetorical Perspectives 2. Critical Ethnography, Ethics, and Work: Rearticulating Labor Bruce Horner 3. Mediating Materiality and Discursivity: Critical Ethnography as Metageneric Learning Mary Jo Reiff 4. The Ethnographic Experience of Postmodern Literacies Christopher Schroeder 5. Shifting Figures: Rhetorical Ethnography Gwen Gorzelsky 6. Writing Program Redesign: Learning from Ethnographic Inquiry, Civic Rhetoric, and the History of Rhetorical Education Lynée Lewis Gaillet II. Place-Conscious Ethnographies: Situating Praxis in the Field 7. Open to Change: Ethos, Identification, and Critical Ethnography in Composition Studies Robert Brooke and Charlotte Hogg 8. State Standards in the United States and the National Curriculum in the United Kingdom: Political Siege Engines against Teacher Professionalism? John Sylvester Lofty 9. Debating Ecology: Ethnographic Writing that "Makes a Difference" Sharon McKenzie Stevens III. The Nomadic Self: Reorganizing the Self in the Field 10. Critical Auto/Ethnography: A Constructive Approach to Research in the Composition Classroom Susan S. Hanson 11. Unsituating the Subject: "Locating" Composition and Ethnography in Mobile Worlds Christopher Keller 12. Protean Subjectivities: Qualitative Research and the Inclusion of the Personal Janet Alsup IV. Ethnographies of Cultural Change 13. Changing Directions: Participatory-Action Research, Agency, and Representation Bronwyn T. Williams and Mary Brydon-Miller 14. Just What Are We Talking About? Disciplinary Struggle and the Ethnographic Imaginary Lance Massey V. Texts and (Con)Texts: Intertextual Voices 15. The Ethics of Reading Critical Ethnography Min-Zhan Lu 16. Beyond Theory Shock: Ethos, Knowledge, and Power in Critical Ethnography Stephen Gilbert Brown List of Contributors Index