This special issue of Qualitative Inquiry has been edited to commemorate the influence of the scholarship of H. L. “Bud” Goodall Jr. to work in narrative ethnography. In this introductory essay by the editor of the journal, readers are provided with background and a brief conceptual frame for the issue.
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