Introduction : The state of the Louisiana field and fieldwork / Jacques Henry and Sara LeMenestrel -- Finding the field through the discovery of the self / Carl Lindahl -- "Are you going to treat?" : asking questions about vernacular medicine / Dana A. David -- Are you in for the long haul? / Deborah J. Clifton -- The theory and practice of activist folklore : from fieldwork to programming / Barry Jean Ancelet -- (Re)turn of the native : insider ethnography and the politics of fieldwork in south Louisiana / Marc David -- Tourist and "Cajun from France" : the shifting identity of the anthropologist / Sara LeMenestrel -- Homing in on the field / Jacques Henry -- Fieldwork in French Louisiana : a Québec experience / Cécyle Trépanier and Dean Louder.