Introduction: Archipelagos, a voyage in writing / Paper Boat Collective -- Ambivalent archive / Angela Garcia -- Writing with care / Michael Jackson -- After the fact : the question of fidelity in ethnographic writing / Michael Jackson -- Walking and writing / Anand Pandian -- Anthropoetry / Adrie Kusserow -- Poetry, uncertainty, and opacity / Michael Jackson -- Taʻbīr : ethnography of the imaginal / Stefania Pandolfo -- Writing through intercessors / Stuart McLean -- Desire in cinema / Anand Pandian -- Flows and interruptions, or, So much for full stops / Stuart McLean -- Denial : A visit in four ethnographic fictions / Tobias Hecht -- Ethnography and fiction / Anand Pandian -- SEA / Stuart McLean -- Writing otherwise / Lisa Stevenson -- Origami conjecture for a Bembé / Todd Ramón Ochoa -- Ethnographic excess / Daniella Gandolfo and Todd Ramón Ochoa -- Conversations with a hunter / Daniella Gandolfo -- On writing and surviving / Lisa Stevenson -- A proper message / Lisa Stevenson -- Fidelity and invention / Angela Garcia