1. Language, culture and learning : Ethnographic approaches
2. Languages and literacies in symbolic structure
3. Culture as verb
4. Learning across recurring situations
5. Multimodalities
6. Summary
7. Notes
8. The Ethnographer’s field entry and tools of practice
9. Entering the field : Shirley goes to trackton and roadville
10. The constant comparative
11. Co-Occurrences for pattern detection : Shirley figures out how skateboarders tell time
12. Resisting preconceptions
13. Reliability, replicability, and validities
14. Summary
15. Setting decision rules for fieldwork
16. Literature reviews : the company we keep
17. What really happens here ?
18. The Ethnographer as instrument
19. Setting time frames
20. Determining the spaces as Sample or case
21. Summary
22. Research questions and field notes
23. Research questions
24. Field notes
25. Conceptual memos
26. Summary
27. Analysis and coming home from the field
28. Language in action
29. Quantitative analysis
30. Discourse and narrative
31. Language socialization
32. Social theories of languages and literacy
33. Summary
34. Taking note of history and writing Ethnography
35. The embrace of anthropology
36. Applied anthropology
37. Ethnography in education
38. Reflexivity
39. The making of public texts
40. summary