Includes bibliographical references and index.

The fieldwork encounter, experience, and the making of truth : an introduction / John Borneman and Abdellah Hammoudi -- Textualism and anthropology : on the ethnographic encounter, or an experience of the hajj / Abdellah Hammoudi -- The suicidal wound and fieldwork among Canadian Inuit / Lisa Stevenson -- The hyperbolic vegetarian : notes on a fragile subject in Gujarat / Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi -- The obligation to receive : the countertransference, the ethnographer, Protestants, and proselytization in North India / Leo Coleman -- Encounter and suspicion in Tanzania / Sally Falk Moore -- Encounters with the mother-tongue : speech, translation, and interlocution in post-Cold War German repatriation / Stefan Senders -- Institutional encounters : identification and anonymity in Russian addiction treatment (and ethnography) / Eugene Raikhel -- Fieldwork experience, collaboration, and interlocution : the "metaphysics of presence" in encounters with the Syrian Mukhabarat / John Borneman -- Afterthoughts : the experience and agony of fieldwork / Abdellah Hammoudi and John Borneman.