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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.47 — 111,131 ratings — published 2016
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.20 — 88,015 ratings — published 1997
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,587 ratings — published 1995
Righteous Dopefiend (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,730 ratings — published 2008
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,149 ratings — published 1992
Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society (updated with a new preface)
by (shelved 36 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,451 ratings — published 1986
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,365 ratings — published 2013
Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,239 ratings — published 1968
Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.93 — 740 ratings — published 2008
Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,699 ratings — published 1996
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.97 — 7,761 ratings — published 2015
Argonauts of the Western Pacific (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,431 ratings — published 1922
Sidewalk (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,698 ratings — published 1999
On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries)
by (shelved 26 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,353 ratings — published 2014
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.84 — 935 ratings — published 1995
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.55 — 3,165 ratings — published 1928
The Forest People (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,488 ratings — published 1961
Direct Action: An Ethnography (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.21 — 553 ratings — published 2009
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,674 ratings — published 1981
The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.55 — 2,142 ratings — published 2015
The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.46 — 1,051 ratings — published 1940
Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.89 — 751 ratings — published 1986
Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.97 — 461 ratings — published 1992
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.98 — 115,463 ratings — published 2012
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 18 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.65 — 194,807 ratings — published 2001
The Interpretation of Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,833 ratings — published 1973
Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,154 ratings — published 1937
Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.83 — 443 ratings — published 1970
Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.67 — 583 ratings — published 1977
Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,283 ratings — published 1991
Tristes Tropiques (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,018 ratings — published 1955
The Mountain People (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.80 — 677 ratings — published 1972
Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.04 — 643 ratings — published 2004
Alive in the Writing: Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.11 — 167 ratings — published 2012
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,964 ratings — published 2008
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.07 — 25,238 ratings — published 2008
Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.28 — 585 ratings — published 2005
Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.61 — 390 ratings — published 2008
Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.68 — 367 ratings — published 1979
In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.90 — 183 ratings — published 1993
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.05 — 32,321 ratings — published 2018
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.12 — 17,654 ratings — published 2016
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.87 — 996 ratings — published 2013
Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
by (shelved 13 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.80 — 265 ratings — published 1988
The Yanomamö (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,332 ratings — published 1966
Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,013 ratings — published 2004
Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of India (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.74 — 412 ratings — published 1989
Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.86 — 313 ratings — published 1943
Learning to Labor (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.95 — 551 ratings — published 1977
Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,991 ratings — published 1995
“In Samoa, [Margaret Mead] argued, children were given love and encouragement, and they were subjected to few prohibitions. They therefore grew up to be more harmonious and happy than the cowed, disciplined and sexually frustrated American adolescents.”
― What Is Anthropology?
― What Is Anthropology?
“You still need to be able to write, and to have a habit of writing - and if you can do this creatively, so much the better.”
― Music Journalism 101: The definitive resource for new and established writers
― Music Journalism 101: The definitive resource for new and established writers
