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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 4.21 — 91,091 ratings — published 1997
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,712 ratings — published 1995
Righteous Dopefiend (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,806 ratings — published 2008
The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 4.40 — 750 ratings — published 2010
Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,296 ratings — published 1968
Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 3.93 — 779 ratings — published 2008
The Yanomamö (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,352 ratings — published 1966
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,727 ratings — published 1981
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 3.55 — 3,274 ratings — published 1928
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 4.07 — 26,035 ratings — published 2008
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Centennial Book)
by (shelved 9 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,186 ratings — published 1992
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,600 ratings — published 2013
Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 3.83 — 468 ratings — published 1970
Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,182 ratings — published 1937
The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 4.55 — 2,452 ratings — published 2015
The Dobe Ju/'hoansi (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 3.62 — 500 ratings — published 1993
Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society (updated with a new preface)
by (shelved 7 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,509 ratings — published 1986
The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 3.47 — 1,075 ratings — published 1940
Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 4.29 — 606 ratings — published 2005
Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 4.04 — 670 ratings — published 2004
The Forest People (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,560 ratings — published 1961
The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 3.96 — 494 ratings — published 1980
Lost in Transition: Ethnographies of Everyday Life after Communism (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 4.17 — 140 ratings — published 2011
The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice (Science and Cultural Theory)
by (shelved 6 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 4.25 — 364 ratings — published 2002
Direct Action: An Ethnography (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 4.22 — 576 ratings — published 2009
Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of India (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 3.75 — 418 ratings — published 1989
Argonauts of the Western Pacific (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,484 ratings — published 1922
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,396 ratings — published 2016
The Mountain People (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 3.79 — 683 ratings — published 1972
The Interpretation of Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,918 ratings — published 1973
Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 3.63 — 406 ratings — published 2008
Sidewalk (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,754 ratings — published 1999
Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,056 ratings — published 2004
Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 3.97 — 472 ratings — published 1992
Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 4.38 — 252 ratings — published 2015
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,455 ratings — published 2008
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,770 ratings — published 2015
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,087 ratings — published 2013
The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,872 ratings — published 1983
Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 3.68 — 379 ratings — published 1979
You Owe Yourself a Drunk: An Ethnography of Urban Nomads (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 3.95 — 80 ratings — published 1970
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,670 ratings — published 1938
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 4 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,842 ratings — published 2001
Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 4.16 — 361 ratings — published 2001
After War: The Weight of Life at Walter Reed (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography)
by (shelved 3 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 4.09 — 54 ratings — published 2015
Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 4.04 — 48 ratings — published
Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 4.33 — 496 ratings — published 2014
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 4.05 — 34,129 ratings — published
Life Beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 4.23 — 328 ratings — published 2014
Renegade Dreams: Living through Injury in Gangland Chicago (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ethnographies)
avg rating 4.16 — 367 ratings — published 2014