Multiple origins, development, and potential of ethnographies of archaeology / Matt Edgeworth --
Sites of knowledge : different ways of knowing an archaeological excavation / Thomas Yarrow --
The mutual constitution of natural and social identities during archaeological fieldwork / David Van Reybrouck and Dirk Jacobs --
A linguistic anthropologist's interest in archaeological practice / Charles Goodwin --
Reflecting upon archaeological practice : multiple visions of a late paleolithic site in Germany / Blythe E. Roveland --
Pictures, ideas and things : the production and currency of archaeological images / Jonathan Bateman --
Studying archaeological fieldwork in the field : views from Monte Polizzo / Cornelius Holtorf --
Digging the dirt : excavation as a social practice / John Carman --
Realisafiction : a day of work at Everybody-Knows-Land / Oǧuz Erdur --
Landscapes of disciplinary power : an ethnography of excavation and survey at Leskernick / Michael Wilmore --
Histories, identity and ownership : an ethnographic case study in archaeological heritage management in the Orkney Islands / Angie McClanahan --
Among totem-poles and clan power in Tanum, Sweden : an ethnographic perspective on communicative artifacts of heritage management / Håkon Karlsson and Anders Gustafsson --
Amazonian archaeology and local identities / Denise Maria Cavalcante Gomes --
Conjunctures in the making of an ancient maya archaeological site / Timoteo Rodriguez --
Complicit agendas : ethnography of archaeology as ethical research practice / Lisa Breglia.

Collection of original studies on the contemporary practice of archaeology as a professional and scholarly endeavor.