Acknowledgments

We are extremely grateful to all the participants in the workshop “Ethnographies of Explanation and the Explanation of Ethnography: Beyond Ethnographic Foundationalism?” held in King’s College, Cambridge, on March 22 and 23, 2018, of which this book is the result. In addition to those who gave papers at that workshop and who have contributed to this book (Jon Bialecki, Joanna Cook, Sarah Green, Tanya Luhrmann, Nigel Rapport, Adam Reed, Gildas Salmon, Richard Staley, and Tom Yarrow), the workshop benefited enormously from the presence of and contributions from Fenella Canell, Harri Englund, Taras Fedirko, Caroline Humphrey, Maryon McDonald, Morten Axel Pedersen, and Alain Pottage.

We are also very grateful to our editor at Cornell, Jim Lance, and to the European Research Council, which funded both the initial workshop and the open-access publication of this book (Grant Number 683033).