Book Review: Lareau, Annette. (2021). Listening to People: A Practical Guide to Interviewing, Participant Observation, Data Analysis, and Writing It All Up. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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I discovered Annette Loreau’s book right at the University of Chicago Press booth at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. This prestigious academic press has a renowned collection of textbooks on social science research methods aimed primarily at students, graduate students, and professors, which it continually expands with new titles. The book is written as a conversation between the author and a student, but without the off-putting style of a textbook. Written predominantly using the second person—a common choice among authors of university textbooks—it initially appears to be a work intended primarily for students, but as you read through it, you realize how useful it is for all qualitative researchers in general.