Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why and How to Use This Handbook -- Multidimensional Concept Work -- Designing with Connectivity, Intuition, Curiosity, and Congruence -- Beginning With The Research Imaginary -- Getting out of Vertical Scaling and Into Multidimensional Space -- Identifying a Multidimensional Object -- Relating Multidimensional Zones of Inquiry -- Project Listening: Attending to What's There and What's Possible -- Overview of the Multidimensional Design Elements and Processes -- Interlude 1: Creating a Collective Concept Workspace -- Module 1: Imagine the Research -- Module 2: Focus on Literatures -- Module 3: Map Concepts -- Module 4: Create Multidimensional Concept Combos -- Module 5: Describe Your Research -- Module 6: Perceive Your Multidimensional Object -- Interlude 2: The Inquiry Zones -- Module 7: The Scoping Zone -- Module 8: The Connecting Zone -- Module 9: The Interacting Zone -- Module 10: Mobilize Your Research Project Grid -- Resting, Reflecting, Preparing to Begin Anew.

"The Ethnographer's Way, by Kristin Peterson and Valerie A. Olson, is a collaboratively written handbook for the beginning stages of anthropological and ethnographic research design. Based on the authors' experience teaching project design to both graduate and undergraduate students, this handbook instructs readers on how to design innovative and socially responsive research projects. Focusing on what they refer to as multidimensional design, Peterson and Olson show how it is possible to let go of contemporary, Western orderings of knowledge and instead turn toward an "otherwise anthropology." Through a series of systematic and progressive modules and component exercises, this instructional text guides budding ethnographers and professional researchers toward more intuitive, creative, and imaginative modes of research"-- Provided by publisher.