Preface

Acknowledgments

Prologue: An Anthropologist Studies Physicists

Touring the Site: Powerful Places in the Laboratory

Inventing Machines That Discover Nature: Detectors at SLAC and KEK

Pilgrim's Progress: Male Tales Told During a Life in Physics

Ground States: Distinctions and the Ties That Bind

Buying Time and Taking Space: Negotiations, Collaboration, and Change

Epilogue: Knowledge and Passion

Notes

Index

Sharon Traweek is Professor of Anthropology at Rice University.