Alma Gottlieb is professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also the author of The Afterlife Is Where We Come From and Under the Kapok Tree and coauthor of Parallel Worlds: An Anthropologist and a Writer Encounter Africa, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

"Much in the way of the development of new topics, new questions, and new variants on the classic method of anthropological fieldwork has depended on the nature and experience of a now characteristic break with the investments of early-career fieldwork projects. Alma Gottlieb's collection is the first in-depth treatment of these 'moments' in anthropological careers, which are crucial to the understanding of new developments, forms, and interests in anthropological research generally." (George Marcus, University of California, Irvine)"

Alma Gottlieb is professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also the author of The Afterlife Is Where We Come From and Under the Kapok Tree and coauthor of Parallel Worlds: An Anthropologist and a Writer Encounter Africa, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

"Much in the way of the development of new topics, new questions, and new variants on the classic method of anthropological fieldwork has depended on the nature and experience of a now characteristic break with the investments of early-career fieldwork projects. Alma Gottlieb's collection is the first in-depth treatment of these 'moments' in anthropological careers, which are crucial to the understanding of new developments, forms, and interests in anthropological research generally." (George Marcus, University of California, Irvine)"

Alma Gottlieb is professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also the author of The Afterlife Is Where We Come From and Under the Kapok Tree and coauthor of Parallel Worlds: An Anthropologist and a Writer Encounter Africa, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

"Much in the way of the development of new topics, new questions, and new variants on the classic method of anthropological fieldwork has depended on the nature and experience of a now characteristic break with the investments of early-career fieldwork projects. Alma Gottlieb's collection is the first in-depth treatment of these 'moments' in anthropological careers, which are crucial to the understanding of new developments, forms, and interests in anthropological research generally." (George Marcus, University of California, Irvine)"