Norman K. Denzin was Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Communications, College of Communications Scholar, and Research Professor of Communications, Sociology, and Humanities at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. One of the world’s foremost authorities on qualitative research and cultural criticism, he was the author or editor of more than 30 books, including The Qualitative Manifesto; Qualitative Inquiry Under Fire; Reading Race; Interpretive Ethnography; The Cinematic Society; The Alcoholic Self; and a trilogy on the American West. He was past editor of The Sociological Quarterly, co-editor of six editions of the landmark SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, co-editor (with Michael D. Giardina) of 18 books on qualitative inquiry, co-editor (with Yvonna S. Lincoln and Michael D. Giardina) of the methods journal Qualitative Inquiry, founding editor of Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies and International Review of Qualitative Research, editor of four book series, and founding director of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Yvonna S. Lincoln is Professor Emerita at Texas A&M University, where she held the Ruth Harrington Chair of Educational Leadership and was Distinguished Professor of Higher Education. She is the coeditor of the journal Qualitative Inquiry, coeditor of the first through six editions of The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, and coeditor of The SAGE Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies. As well, she is the coauthor, editor, or coeditor of more than a half dozen other books and volumes. She has served as the President of the Association for the Study of Higher Education and the American Evaluation Research Association, and as the Vice President for Division J (Postsecondary Education) for the American Educational Research Association. She is the author of coauthor of more than 100 chapters and journal articles on aspects of higher education or qualitative research methods and methodologies.

This is an interesting collection of articles from a leading journal; however it does not cover as wide a range of methodologies as would be needed to make this essential reading. Perusal of the journal itself, alongside QHR would still be essential for those adopting a qualitative approach.

• IntroductionPART I. REFLEXIVE ETHNOGRAPHY1. Research as Relationship - D. Ceglowski2. Three Short Stories - C. Dunbar3. Skirting a Pleated Text: De-Disciplining an Academic Life - L. Richardson4. Circling the Text: Nomadic Writing Practices - E. St. PierrePART II. AUTOETHNOGRAPHY5. Discovering My Mother as the Other in the ′Saturday Evening Post′ - E. Creef6. This I Know: An Exploration of Remembering Childhood and Knowing Now - J. Haley7. The Next Night Sous Rature: Wrestling with Derrida′s Mimesis - C. Ronai8. On Becoming Italian American: An Autobiography of an Ethnic Identity - R. TravisanoPART III. POETICS9. A Gift of the Journey - I. Brady10. Two Microethnographies - M. Nowak11. The Anthro in Cali - M. Richardson12. Windows - M. WeemsPART IV. PERFORMANCE NARRATIVES13. Torch - S. Jones14. Always Dying: Living Between Da and Fort - R. PeliasPART V. ASSESSING THE TEXT15. Negotiated Validity in Collaborative Ethnography - L. Belgrave & K. Smith16. Criteria Against Ourselves - A. Bochner17. Writing the ′Wrongs′ of Fieldwork: Confronting Our Own Research / Writing Dilemmas in Urban Ethnographies - M. Fine & L. Weis18. The Social Construction of Validity - S. Kvale19. Emerging Criteria for Quality in Qualitative and Interpretive Research - Y. Lincoln20. Confronting Anthropology′s Silencing Praxis: Speaking Of / From a Chicana Consciousness - M. Rodriguez