Contents -- Preface -- Introduction Becoming Human -- 1. A Kind of Kinship -- 2. Saints and Outcasts: La Negrita and the Accidental Catholic -- 3. Mad to Be Modern -- 4. The Evil Eye of the Anthropologist -- 5. Two Women -- 6. Graça -- 7. Insult and Danger: Anthropology among Navajos, Montenegrin Serbs, and Wild Chimpanzee -- 8. Shame and Making Truth: The Social Repairs of Ethnographic Blunders -- 9. Far from Home, and Being Gnawed on by a Vervet -- 10. Time Travel -- 11. Prostitutes with Honor: A Researcher with Shame -- 12. A Widening Circle: Family, Collaboration, and Lifelong Ethnography in Canyon de Chelly -- 13. Japanese Ghosts Don't Have Feet -- 14. Field Relations, Field Betrayals -- 15. My Family's Honor -- 16. Return to Nisa -- Contributors.