The article addresses the question of alternative ways to writing ethnography and more specifically, the ethnography of surrogacy. It focuses on the example of a digital ethnographic artifact that was created in order to host fictional representations of surrogacy practices. The article presents ethnographic material from a recent research project that focused on experiences of surrogate parenthood of Greek and Cypriot intended parents. The digital artifact demonstrates how multimodal anthropological narrations may represent, and simultaneously evoke, sensory experience through the temporal and spatial digital unfolding of interlocutors’ stories. Indeed, the article explains the structure of the artifact and discusses specific digital nodes which depict interlocutors’ testimonies of longing, waiting, uncertainty, vulnerability, pain, loss, joy, and safekeeping before, during, and after surrogacy procedures. In the context of the ethnographic artifact narratives and non-narratives of motherhood, fatherhood, and pregnancy refer to a variety of precarious contexts of placeness/emplacement, legality/illegality, and connectedness/disconnectedness without relying on conventional textual ethnographic writing. Drawing from selected ethnographic examples as they relate to the literature of assisted reproduction, the authors argue that digital nodal narration enables both the cultural contextualization of individual experience as well as its affective and intellectual correlation with similar and antithetical experiences of other field interlocutors.

这篇文章解决了编写民族志的替代方法的问题，更具体地说，是代孕的民族志。它侧重于数字民族志工件的示例，该工件是为了托管代孕实践的虚构表现而创建的。这篇文章介绍了最近一项研究项目的民族志材料，该项目侧重于希腊和塞浦路斯预期父母的代孕经历。数字人工制品展示了多模态人类学叙述如何通过对话者故事的时间和空间数字展开来表示并同时唤起感官体验。事实上，文章解释了人工制品的结构并讨论了特定的数字节点，这些节点描述了对话者对渴望、等待、不确定、脆弱、痛苦、失落、喜悦、在代孕程序之前、期间和之后妥善保管。在民族志人工制品叙事和母性、父性和怀孕的非叙事的背景下，指的是各种不稳定的场所/安置、合法/非法和连通性/断开连接的上下文，而不依赖于传统的文本民族志写作。作者从与辅助生殖文献相关的选定人种学例子中汲取灵感，认为数字节点叙述既可以实现个人体验的文化背景化，又可以将其与其他领域对话者的类似和对立体验的情感和智力关联起来。父亲身份和怀孕是指在不依赖传统的文本民族志写作的情况下，各种不稳定的场所/安置、合法性/非法性和连通性/分离性背景。作者从与辅助生殖文献相关的选定人种学例子中汲取灵感，认为数字节点叙述既可以实现个人体验的文化背景化，又可以将其与其他领域对话者的类似和对立体验的情感和智力关联起来。父亲身份和怀孕是指在不依赖传统的文本民族志写作的情况下，各种不稳定的场所/安置、合法性/非法性和连通性/分离性背景。作者从与辅助生殖文献相关的选定人种学例子中汲取灵感，认为数字节点叙述既可以实现个人体验的文化背景化，又可以将其与其他领域对话者的类似和对立体验的情感和智力关联起来。