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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.47 — 116,705 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 56 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.21 — 90,323 ratings — published 1997
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,684 ratings — published 1995
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Centennial Book)
by (shelved 42 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,179 ratings — published 1992
Righteous Dopefiend (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,792 ratings — published 2008
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,558 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 3.99 — 1,501 ratings — published 1986
Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,281 ratings — published 1968
Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.93 — 775 ratings — published 2008
Argonauts of the Western Pacific (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,473 ratings — published 1922
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,527 ratings — published 2015
Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,807 ratings — published 1996
Sidewalk (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,738 ratings — published 1999
The Forest People (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,546 ratings — published 1961
On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries)
by (shelved 26 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,392 ratings — published 2014
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.55 — 3,248 ratings — published 1928
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.83 — 959 ratings — published 1995
The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.55 — 2,396 ratings — published 2015
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,715 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 — 1,068 ratings — published 1940
Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.96 — 470 ratings — published 1992
Direct Action: An Ethnography (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.21 — 573 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 — 118,422 ratings — published 2012
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 21 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,376 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
Tristes Tropiques (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,261 ratings — published 1955
The Interpretation of Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,898 ratings — published 1973
Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,176 ratings — published 1937
Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,297 ratings — published 1991
Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.83 — 463 ratings — published 1970
Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.86 — 318 ratings — published 1943
Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.68 — 604 ratings — published 1977
Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.03 — 663 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 — 18,199 ratings — published 2016
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.07 — 25,851 ratings — published 2008
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,254 ratings — published 2008
The Mountain People (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.79 — 682 ratings — published 1972
Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.67 — 374 ratings — published 1979
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.05 — 33,636 ratings — published 2018
Alive in the Writing: Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.09 — 173 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 — 403 ratings — published 2008
Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.28 — 599 ratings — published 2005
In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.87 — 185 ratings — published 1993
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,064 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 — 268 ratings — published 1988
Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.93 — 422 ratings — published 2002
Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey (Vintage Departures)
by (shelved 13 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,082 ratings — published 1995
Learning to Labor (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.95 — 575 ratings — published 1977
The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.40 — 735 ratings — published 2010
The Yanomamö (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,347 ratings — published 1966
“Thus the writing of ethnography becomes a magical act, no less than the creation of a ritual, the making of a spell, or the manufacture of a sacred object: the ethnographer is by definition a magician.”
― Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America
― Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America
“...tales in search of an excuse for their telling.”
― Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography
― Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography
