Shane, the Lone Ethnographer is a smart, engaging, and wonderfully accessible guide to the pleasures and perils of ethnographic research. Using her field-defining comics technique, Sally Pirie captures with humor, candor, and a keen eye for the often-unspoken realities of fieldwork what it actually feels like to do ethnography: to enter unfamiliar spaces, build relationships, navigate uncertainty, make mistakes, and gradually learn how to see differently. At once practical and intellectually serious, Shane demystifies ethnographic research without diminishing its complexity.

Lesley Bartlett, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Sally Campbell Pirie is the O.G. queen of comics-based research, and it's great to see her creation, Shane-who feels like a longtime friend-back in action. I start my ethnography course with Shane, the Lone Ethnographer because it lays the groundwork for everything my students are about to learn, and they always find Shane a relatable classmate.

Marcus Weaver-Hightower, Virginia Tech

Shane, the Lone Ethnographer is the ideal text for undergraduate qualitative research methods courses. The comic illustrations and sense of humor are delightful and engaging. At the same time, the book is packed with rich concepts and insights which ensure that students can design research projects that are ethically sound, methodologically creative, theoretically informed, and committed to decolonizing the discipline.

Christine Kray, Rochester Institute of Technology

Pirie's delightful book grabs attention from the first page. The reader is immersed and engaged by literally visualizing ethnography in new ways. Decolonizing and arts-based research approaches sit center stage as humanizing approaches for seeing and discovering critical and alternative ways of knowing, being, and articulating the field. Such important material for new and advanced students, alike.

Aline Gubrium, UMass Amherst

Anthropology's long quest to improve our understanding of one another across perspectives has delivered ethnographic methods, and now this charming and useful how-to book. Shane, the Lone Ethnographer offers a comforting boost for students and a valuable resource for teachers. The third edition shows how to cultivate and use even more ethnographic skills and techniques than earlier editions. Its bite-sized lessons are easy to find and absorb. Its coverage provides opportunities for instructors to challenge students to learn by constructively critiquing its characterizations. Its comic book format relaxes, welcomes, and, well, draws readers as well as sketches.

Roger Ivar Lohmann, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Trent University