Actor-network theory (ANT) is an emerging approach within tourism studies after having been around in the social sciences since the early 1980s. ANT promises a more nuance understanding of the complex workings of tourism practices, their emergence, orderings and effects and has recently been linked to a plea for ‘earthly sciences’ (Latour, 2007). The ANT approach has a talent to dissolve what seems solid orders, drawing into light the work actors need to engage in to accomplish orders to live by. This paper deals with some of the challenges and implications of translating and applying ANT in tourism research. It focuses on the practice of research and discusses the study policy of ANT in relation to the concept of the field. ANT stresses the ethnographic following of actors and their practices while the field has been the organizational principle of anthropological research for most part of the discipline’s history. With examples of ethnographic research on tourism development in Iceland, it is argued that ANT is able to sensitize fieldworkers to the multiplicity of the field through a focus on relational practices and intersecting modes of ordering relations and thus assist framing ethnographic fieldwork as a modest and inherently earthly endeavor.