We have spoken of these essays as examples of “critical anthropology,” but we emphasize that we do not conceive of a critical anthropology as a negative or reactive project. On the contrary, questioning assumptions and deeply entrenched habits of thought is important, for us, not as an end in itself but because doing so enables different kinds of ethnographic work to go forward. The essays in this volume are presented, then, in a positive spirit, one that seeks to explore some of the possibilities for ethnographic work that have sprung up in the wake of two decades of critique.