Messy Ethnography takes this quotation seriously. Chapters 1 to 3 pursue a critique of traditional methods of qualitative research and ethnographic writing, not simply pointing out the many flaws, as has been done many times already, but presenting constructive alternatives where needed.  The result is a clear eyed way forward.  Chapters 4 to 15 put the lessons from the theoretical first chapters to the test using English culture as a case study.  It asks the most obvious questions: Does Englishness exist? If so, where does it exist?  What does it look like? etc. etc. The answers are...