Chapter 1: Introduction: A Theoretically Oriented PracticePart I: Grounds for sociocultural anthropology: USA, UK, FR, ITChapter 2: Ethnography before ethnography. Genesis and developments of field research in North AmericaChapter 3: Before and after Science: Radcliffe-Brown, British social anthropology and the problem of the relatiionship between fieldwork methods, ethnography and theoryChapter 4: "Ethnography in France". Ethnographic practices and theories from Marcel Mauss to Marcel GriauleChapter 5: The Structural Formula of the Team. Reflections on the Ethnographic Method of Ernesto de MartinoPart II. Anthropology (Theory) vs Ethnography (Fieldwork)Chapter 6: Illusion of immediate knowledge (immediacy) or spiritual exercise? The dialogic exchange and the Pierre Bourdieu's ethnographyChapter 7: "A conspiracy of silence" George Balandier and the study of African slavery and post-slaveryChapter 8: The Bridge and the Dance: Situational Analysis in AnthropologyChapter 9: Politics within Cultural and Social AnthropologyChapter 10: Stumbling blocks. The irruption of the interpretive approach in twentieth century anthropologyPart III. Visual, Dialogical, Sensorial, Multi-sited ethnographyChapter 11: The anthropologist's eye: Ethnography, visual practices, imagesChapter 12: Dennis and Barbara Tedlock. The dialogic turn in anthropologyChapter 13: Embodiment and EthnographyChapter 14: Exploring Mobility through Mobility. The Challenges of Multi-sited Ethnography from Marcus and Hannerz to nowadaysPart IV: DeconstructionsChapter 15: Participant observation. The personal commitment in native life: A problematic methodological toposChapter 16: The Weberian line of anthropology: George E. Marcus from Writing Culture to DesignChapter 17: Making the Invisible ethnography Visible. The peculiar relationship between Italian anthropology and feminismChapter 18: Beyond the field: literature, theory and ethnographic writing