Approaches to ethnography : analysis and representation in participant observation Approaches to Ethnography illustrates the various modes of representation and analysis that typify participant observation research. In contrast to the multitude of ethnographic textbooks handbooks and readers on the market this book is neither a how to guide nor a catalogue of substantive themes such as race community or space; it also avoids re hashing epistemological debates such as grounded theory versus the extended case method. Instead this volume concisely lays out the predominant analytic lenses that ethnographers use to explain social action—for instance whether they privilege micro interaction or social structure people and places or social processes internal dispositions or situational contingencies. Each chapter features a prominent ethnographer delineating a distinct approach to the study of everyday life and reflecting on how their approach shapes the way they analyze and represent the field. Taken together the collection is a practical guide that spells out how different styles of ethnography illuminate different dimensions of everyday social life. As such Approaches to Ethnography complements and augments—but not duplicate—existing ethnographic methods and logic of inquiry texts for undergraduate and graduate courses on qualitative research methods.