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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 61 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.21 — 91,415 ratings — published 1997
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.47 — 119,111 ratings — published 2016
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,728 ratings — published 1995
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Centennial Book)
by (shelved 44 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,194 ratings — published 1992
Righteous Dopefiend (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,815 ratings — published 2008
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,620 ratings — published 2013
Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society (updated with a new preface)
by (shelved 38 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,514 ratings — published 1986
Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,301 ratings — published 1968
Argonauts of the Western Pacific (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,491 ratings — published 1922
Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.93 — 780 ratings — published 2008
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,888 ratings — published 2015
Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,840 ratings — published 1996
Sidewalk (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,765 ratings — published 1999
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.55 — 3,286 ratings — published 1928
The Forest People (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,570 ratings — published 1961
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.84 — 969 ratings — published 1995
The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.54 — 2,486 ratings — published 2015
On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries)
by (shelved 26 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,416 ratings — published 2014
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,731 ratings — published 1981
The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.47 — 1,078 ratings — published 1940
Tristes Tropiques (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,368 ratings — published 1955
Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.97 — 471 ratings — published 1992
Direct Action: An Ethnography (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.22 — 578 ratings — published 2009
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.98 — 119,774 ratings — published 2012
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 21 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.66 — 197,068 ratings — published 2001
Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.91 — 762 ratings — published 1986
The Interpretation of Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,926 ratings — published 1973
Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,188 ratings — published 1937
Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,302 ratings — published 1991
Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.83 — 474 ratings — published 1970
Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.87 — 328 ratings — published 1943
Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.69 — 613 ratings — published 1977
Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.04 — 672 ratings — published 2004
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.12 — 18,395 ratings — published 2016
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,099 ratings — published 2013
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.07 — 26,107 ratings — published 2008
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.05 — 34,412 ratings — published
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,538 ratings — published 2008
The Mountain People (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.79 — 683 ratings — published 1972
Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.68 — 380 ratings — published 1979
In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.87 — 186 ratings — published 1993
Alive in the Writing: Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.09 — 176 ratings — published 2012
Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.63 — 408 ratings — published 2008
Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.29 — 607 ratings — published 2005
Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
by (shelved 13 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.80 — 270 ratings — published 1988
Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.94 — 427 ratings — published 2002
Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey (Vintage Departures)
by (shelved 13 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,124 ratings — published 1995
The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.96 — 500 ratings — published 1980
Learning to Labor (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.96 — 586 ratings — published 1977
The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.40 — 760 ratings — published 2010
“Whereas Radcliffe-Brown's structure is a social one, Lévi-Strauss's structure is mental or cognitive; ... Shortly before his death in 1955, Radcliffe-Brown confessed in a letter to Lévi-Strauss that he would never understand the Frenchman's use of the term structure.”
― What Is Anthropology?
― What Is Anthropology?
“Hoʻokahi o kuʻu noi i ka poʻe: e mālama i ko lākou moʻolelo, ma kahi e mau ai...nā moʻopuna aku ana, nā kualua, a makemake nā moʻopuna, e lohe i ko kākou leo.
I have only one favor to ask of people: to take care of their stories, let them be kept in a permanent place...so that their grandchildren and great-grandchildren can come and hear our voices.”
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I have only one favor to ask of people: to take care of their stories, let them be kept in a permanent place...so that their grandchildren and great-grandchildren can come and hear our voices.”
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