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Preface
Elijah Anderson, Scott N. Brooks, Raymond Gunn, Nikki Jones

Introduction
Robert M. Emerson

The Cosmopolitan Canopy
Elijah Anderson

Why Girls Fight: Female Youth Violence in the Inner City
Cindy D. Ness

“It’s Not Where You Live, It’s How You Live”:
How Young Women Negotiate Conflict and Violence in the Inner City
Nikki Jones

Inner City “Schoolboy” Life
Raymond Gunn

“Putting the Blessings on Him”: Vouching and Basketball Status Work
Scott N. Brooks

The Emotional Experience of Class: Interpreting Working-Class Kids’ Street Racing in Helsinki
Heli Vaaranen

The Ethnography of Imagined Communities: The Cultural Production of Sikh Ethnicity in Britain Kathleen D. Hall

Deindustrialisazation and Museumification: From Exhibited Memory to Forgotten History
Octave Debary

Paris Plage: “The City Is Ours”
Michele de la Pradelle and Emmanuelle Lallement

W.E.B. Du Bois’s Sociology: The Philadelphia Negro and Social Science
Tukufu Zuberi

Using the History of the Chicago Tradition of Sociology for Empirical Research
Jean-Michel Chapoulie

The Making of Black Metropolis
Henri Peretz

Discovering Ink: A Mentor for an Historical Ethnography
William Kornblum

Beyond Mysterium Tremendum: Thoughts toward an Aesthetic Study of Religious Experience
Omar M. McRoberts

Experimental Ethnography: The Marriage of Qualitative and Quantitative Research
Lawrence W. Sherman and Heather Strang

The Liberty Bell: A Meditation on Labor, Liberty, and the Cultural Mediations That Connect or Disconnect Them
Paul Willis

Bureaucracies of Mass Deception: IRBs and the Ethics of Ethnographic Research
Charles L. Bosk and Raymond G. De Vries

On the Value of Ethnography: Sociology and Public Policy
A Dialogue
Howard S. Becker, Herbert J. Gans, Katherine S. Newman, and Diane Vaughan;
comments by Jean-Michel Chapoulie

On the Rhetoric and Politics of Ethnographic Methodology
Jack Katz

Observations and Reflections of a Perpetual Fieldworker
Renée C. Fox