The aims of this compilation are to: demonstrate the deeply rooted nature of narratives across the social sciences; reveal the nature of the narrative turn; emphasise the methodological strengths and weakness associated with the analysis of narrative, life story and performance; and break down the barriers between the disciplines in their uses.

VOLUME ONE Introduction - Atkinson and Delamont PART ONE: JUSTIFICATION Kundera's Immortality - Atkinson and Silverman Beyond Translations - Tierney Interpreting Menchu's Account - Treuba Accounts - Scott and Lynan PART TWO: TRADITIONS The Guerilla Journalist - De Graef and Stein From Anecdote to Analysis - Dougherty PART THREE: METHODS Do I Like Them Too Much? - Yow Analyzing the Analyzed - Roper Methods and Theory - Dunaway Telling and Listening - De Vault The Zoom Model - Pamphilon What Is the Legend after All? - Degh Meaning and Identity in Cyber Space - Kendall VOLUME TWO PART ONE: NARRATIVES Narrative Turn or Blind Alley? - Atkinson Unexpected Studies - Cary The Teller, the Tale - Gudmundsdottir PART TWO: EXAMPLES (A) Not Illness Listening to Queer Maps - Brown (A) Not Illness The Bubble That Burst - Day Sclater Jane's Divorce Story (B) Illness Sport, Spinalcord Injury etc - Sparkes and Smith (B) Illness Survivors and Victims - Crossley (B) Illness Illness Narratives - Ezzy (B) Illness The Validity of Angels - Lather VOLUME THREE PART ONE: LIFE HISTORY, ORAL HISTORY, ETC Upper Class Life - Roos and Roos We'll Remain in This Cesspool - Siegelbaum and Walkowitz Go to College - Hickey Exploring Myths - Freund and Quilici Oral History of Schooling - Summerfield Semantic Slippage and Moral Fall - Herzfeld PART TWO: AUTO-ETHNOGRAPHY Among the Chosen - Barone Reflections on Residential School and Our Future - Whattam VOLUME FOUR PART ONE: PERFORMANCE AND PERFORMERS Urban Legends, Myths etc The Hit List - Delamont Rude Words - Fine Cadaver Stories - Hafferty Atrocity Stories - Dingwall Rocky the Police Dog - Bennett Golden Oranges and Silver Ships - Dubish Breaking the Spell - Slater Turkish Women's Mevled - Tapper PART TWO: OTHER PERFORMERS Re/Searching Speaking and Listening - Butterwick The Theatre of Ethnography - Mienczakowski Missed Memories - Tsimouris Bridge between Worlds - Caraveli-Chaves Honour and the Sentiments of Loss - Abu-Lughod Telling Performances - Tucker Double-Edge Sword - Green Stages in Life - Ratcliff Dance Ethno-Graphics and the Moving Body - Farnell Theoretical and Methodological Considerations - Kaeppler Tea The Way of Tea - Kondo Sing Singing Contests in the Ethnic Enclosure of the Post-War Japanese Community - Hosokawa Martial Arts The Ritual Dimension of Karate-Do - Donahue Carnival Afro-Bahian Carnival - Dunn PART THREE: TESTIMONIOS RM and DS - Smelt

Paul Atkinson is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University. Recent publications include For Ethnography (SAGE 2014) and Thinking Ethnographically (SAGE 2017). The fourth book in his quartet will be Crafting Ethnography, also for SAGE. The fourth edition of Hammersley and Atkinson Ethnography: Principles in Practice was published by Routledge in 2019. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and of the Learned Society of Wales. Dr Sara Delamont, DSc Econ, AcSS. read Social Anthropology at Girton College Cambridge, did her PhD at Edinburgh, and lectured at Leicester before moving to Cardiff in 1976. She was the first woman to be President of BERA (the British Education Research Association) and the first woman Dean of Social Sciences at Cardiff. She has done ethnographies in schools, and other settings where teaching and learning take place such as operatic master classes and martial arts studios. With Paul Atkinson she is the Founding Editor of Qualitative Research, and is the author of fourteen books.