Andrea Ballestero is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rice University and author of A Future History of Water, also published by Duke University Press. She also directs The Ethnography Studio.

Brit Ross Winthereik is Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Ethnography at the IT University of Copenhagen and coauthor of Monitoring Movements in Development Aid: Recursive Partnerships and Infrastructures.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Analysis as Experimental Practice / Andrea Ballestero and Brit Ross Winthereik 1
Part I. Bodily Practices and Relocations
1. Tactile Analytics: Touching as a Collective Act / Patricia Alvarez Astacio 15
2. The Ethnographic Hunch / Sarah Pink 30
3. The Para-Site in Ethnographic Research Projects / George E. Marcus 41
4. Juxtaposition: Differences That Matter / Else Vogel 53
Part II. Physical Objects
5. Relocating Innovation: Postcards from Three Edges / Endre Dányi, Lucy Suchman, and Laura Watts 69
6. Object Exchange / Trine Mygind Korsby and Anthony Stavrianakis 82
7. Drawing as Analysis: Thinking in Images, Writing in Words / Rachel Douglas-Jones 94
8. Diagrams: Making Multispecies Temporalities Visible / Elaine Gan 108
Part III. Infrastructural Play
9. Ethnographic Drafts and Wild Archives / Alberto Corsín Jiménez 123
10. Multimodal Sorting: The Flow of Images across Social Media and Anthropological Analysis / Karen Waltorp 133
11. Categorize, Recategorize, Repeat / Graham M. Jones 151
12. Sound Recording as Analytic Technique / Brit Ross Winthereik and James Maguire 163
Part IV. Incommensurabilities
13. Substance as Method (Shaking Up Your Practice) / Joseph Dumit 175
14. Excreting Variously: On Contrasting as an Analytic Technique / Justine Laurent, Oliver Human, Carolina Domínguez Guzmán, Els Roding, Ulrike Scholtes, Marianne de Laet, and Annemarie Mol 186
15. Facilitating Breakdowns through the Exchange of Perspectives / Steffen Dalsgaard 198
16. Analogy / Antonia Walford 209
17. Decolonizing Knowledge Devices / Ivan da Costa Marques 219
18. Writing an Ethnographic Story in Working toward Responsibly Unearthing Ontological Troubles / Helen Verran 235
19. Not Knowing: In the Presence of . . . / Marisol de la Cadena 246
Afterword 1. Questions, Experiments, and Movements of Ethnographies in the Making / Melanie Ford Lemus and Katie Ulrich 257
Afterword 2. Where Would You Put This Volume? On Thinking with Unruly Companions in the Middle of Things / Clément Dréano and Markus Rudolfi 262
References 267
Contributors 287
Index 295