Introduction: elusive bodies: the (dis)embodiment of research -- Coming to terms: embodying qualitative research -- Designing bodies: planning for conscious embodiment -- Inquiring bodies: embodiment as a research focus -- Ethnographic bodies: enacting embodied fieldwork -- Interviewing bodies: co-constructing meaning through talk -- Textual bodies: creating embodied data -- Analyzing bodies: embodying analysis across the qualitative continuum -- Speaking of/for bodies: embodying representation