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Abstract
This article discusses the two ends of the life-history process: the reasons for its undertaking and the research assumptions these engender, and the impact of the published account on readers. In doing so, I draw on my own experience in the research and writing of Nan: The Life of an Irish Travelling woman (Gmelch, 1986/1991) and upon the responses of Traveller and non-Traveller readers to this life history. (Ethnographic research; life-history interviewing, editing, and narra-tive construction; literary criticism)

Baseball as America. National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum and Library, at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. March 16‐August 18, 2002, traveling exhibition.Baseball as America: Seeing Ourselves through Our National Game. National Baseball Hall of Fame. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2002. 330 pp.

The authors draw on their 40 years as anthropologists and educators to illustrate through a narrative-style text and photographs what it is like to be an anthropologist and to 'do' anthropology - the problems encountered as well as the pleasures and rewards of living in other cultures and learning from other people. Through accounts of their lives and work in varied cultural settings, the authors describe the many forms fieldwork can take, the kinds of questions anthropologists ask, and the common problems they encounter. From these accounts and the experiences of their students, 'In the Field' makes a powerful case for the value of the anthropological approach to knowledge

Cover; Irish Travellers; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; 1 From Tinkers to Travellers; 2 First Fieldwork; 3 Return to a Changing Ireland; 4 Cork; 5 Kathleen Mongan Keenan Pushed from Pillar to Post; 6 The Road to Ennis; 7 Galway; 8 Paddy Houlahan Living on the Edge of Your Town; 9 Tuam; 10 Mary Warde Moriarty Not All Travellers Wanted the Same Thing; 11 Martin Ward We've Come a Long Way; 12 Full Circle; 13 Martin Collins Traveller Politics Have Been My Life; 14 Unsettled Identity, Unsettled Life; Acknowledgments; Notes; INDEX