Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-210) and index.

Introduction : a detective of some kind -- One page of notes and no hypotheses : the spyglass of anthropology -- Places and spaces : a group on the store porch -- Time and timescapes : 'we were to dance three hours' -- Memories and memorials : a diploma and a Chevrolet -- Movement and mobilities : heading my toenails -- Bodies and performativity : not pleasure dancing but ceremonial -- Groups and identities : the profound silence of the initiated -- Narratives and other tales : 'ah come to collect some old stories' -- Senses and multi-sensory matters : indescribable noises, sights, feelings -- Knowledge and its transmission : 'taught me all that he could' -- Conclusions : through the roiling smoke.