»On indeterminacies of fieldwork and the intricate work of life, this insightful collection of essays makes us fall in love with the more-than, the in-between, and the often left-out of ethnographic research. It is, in every instance, also a love letter to a multi-sided guide and ethnographer.«

»New generations of anthropologists are in desperate need of exemplars that show us how to also be human while working as professional ethnographers. This magical collection of essays graciously gives us those, and in spades.«

»Der Band ist eine schlüssige Sammlung, die einen echten Beitrag zum Verständnis ethnografischer Feldforschung leistet.« (translated from English)

»The volume is a coherent collection that makes a genuine contribution to the understanding of ethnographic fieldwork.«

Tim Burger is a postdoctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Center »Cultures of Vigilance« at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (SFB 1369). He has conducted fieldwork on São Jorge Island, Azores, and in Central Java, Indonesia, with a focus on agriculture, economic practices, household relations, and the state. Before pursuing his doctoral thesis in social anthropology at the University of Cambridge, he studied for a MSc in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics (LSE), and B.A. in Social and Cultural Anthropology and Law at LMU Munich where he also taught various undergraduate courses.
Usman Mahar holds a postdoctoral position at Universität St. Gallen. His anthropological investigations delve into various aspects of unequal mobility, irregularisation and return. His current research examines the lived conditions and rights of migrants in Austria as part of the EU-Horizon project, ›Protecting Irregular Migrants in Europe‹ (PRIME). He received his PhD from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. His multi-sited doctoral research in Germany, Italy and Pakistan (2019-2022), focused on the affective responses and improvisations of irregularised migrants and ›voluntary‹ returnees.
Pascale Schild is a social anthropologist at Universität Bern. Her research focuses on disaster government, politics of reconstruction, the state, political solidarity, peace and conflict and ethnographic vulnerability. She holds a PhD from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Between 2021 and 2024, she was a visiting researcher at the South Asia Institute at SOAS University of London.
Anna-Maria Walter is a social anthropologist at the Rachel Carson Center. Her PhD research at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München focused on the anthropology of emotions, gender relations and mobile phones in the high mountains of Gilgit, northern Pakistan. As a postdoctoral researcher for the University of Oulu, Anna-Maria has worked on conceptions of the self through social media use, digital anthropology and field methodologies, the socio-ecological dimensions of Alpine ski touring, perceptions of mountain landscapes more broadly as well as indigenous knowledge of glaciers.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
The Multi-Sided Ethnographer: Living the Field beyond Research 9
Acknowledgements 11
Introducing the Multi-Sided Ethnographer 15
No Feierabend after Fieldwork? 37
Hiking Ethnography 55
Assembling Bits and Pieces 73
The Travelling Carpet 93
Ethnography with a Faith Community 115
Family 'Opening' the Field 133
Giving Up the Field 151
Constructing the Field or Cementing It? 167
Home/Transit 193
Fieldnotes 217
Intimate Suspects 235
Agencies, Friendships, Nationalism and Anthropology 259
Qurb\ani 281
From the Field, With Love 307
Authors and Editors 321