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This article invites the reader to explore teaching as a life—a way of being and doing that constructs who we are. Passages from Annie Dillard's The Writing Life begin a meditation on the ideals and realities of teaching and suggest that a teaching life can be constructed as an artist's life, with its freedom to invent a task and select materials and its necessity to take risk.

This article demonstrates how to use three ethnographic techniques to help students understand and appreciate behavior in organizations from an anthropological perspective. The techniques are network analysis, event analysis, and componential analysis. For each technique, the article presents the purpose for using the technique, how to do it, an example drawn from ethnographic research, and several suggestions for adapting it to the classroom.