The culmination of these trends was that writing was suddenly seen as central to what ethnographers do, and for a while it seemed that nothing was sacred, nothing to be saved from the critical eye of reflexivity for some, the outcome was a crisis in representation. In line with what Rob Stones (1996) calls defeatist post-modernism, some con clued that no voice was of any more value than any other and no ethnography any more trustworthy (Denzin 1992, Spencer 1989) Others have moved beyond the critical moment to try to reclaim some authority for the academic ethnographer, while retaining what was beneficial, intelligent and insightful from the reflexive turn; that is, an awareness that ethnographies are constructed by human beings who make choices about what to research, interpret what they see and hear, decide what to write and how, and that they do all this in the context of their own personal biographies and often ensconced in scientific and disciplinary environments (Hammersley 1998, Seale 1999, Spencer 2001).