Includes bibliographical references and index.

A historian/anthropologist amongst the Garos of Bangladesh / Ellen Bal -- Power and authority in the field / Ali Khan -- Story of my research in Bhutan / A.C. Sinha -- Remembering fieldwork histories / Mandy Sadan -- Fields of working knowledge / Ben Campbell -- Reflections on fieldwork in three cultures / Arjun Guneratne -- Return to Rengsanggri / Robbins Burling -- Researching Garo death rites / Erik de Maaker -- Memories and reflections on ethnographic fieldwork in "conflict" setting / Debojyoti Das -- In search of storytellers among the Khiamniungan Nagas / Anungla Aier -- Experiencing mortuary practices in an anthropological journey / Gautam Kumar Bera -- Making senses of the organizations and the experiences of anthropological practices in a university of India / Arnab Das -- Tales of everyday politics in West Bengal / Suman Nath and Bhaskar Chakrabarti -- Doing fieldwork and discovering Harijan art in Madhubani / Neel Rekha -- Memories of my third visit to the Nicobar archipelago / Vijoy S. Sahay -- Discovering the self and others in Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh / Abeer Gupta -- Dialogue on indigenous studies and fieldwork in India / Daniel J. Rycroft and Ganesh Devy.