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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.47 — 117,572 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 4.21 — 90,724 ratings — published 1997
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,703 ratings — published 1995
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Centennial Book)
by (shelved 43 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,183 ratings — published 1992
Righteous Dopefiend (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,805 ratings — published 2008
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,585 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 — 1,504 ratings — published 1986
Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,288 ratings — published 1968
Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.93 — 777 ratings — published 2008
Argonauts of the Western Pacific (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,479 ratings — published 1922
Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,813 ratings — published 1996
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 — 8,646 ratings — published 2015
Sidewalk (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,745 ratings — published 1999
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.55 — 3,265 ratings — published 1928
The Forest People (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,550 ratings — published 1961
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.83 — 960 ratings — published 1995
On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries)
by (shelved 26 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,398 ratings — published 2014
The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.55 — 2,426 ratings — published 2015
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,720 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 — 1,072 ratings — published 1940
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 4.21 — 575 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 — 118,945 ratings — published 2012
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 21 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,642 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 20 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,292 ratings — published 1955
The Interpretation of Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,907 ratings — published 1973
Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,179 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 — 466 ratings — published 1970
Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.86 — 319 ratings — published 1943
Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.68 — 605 ratings — published 1977
Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.04 — 666 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 — 18,277 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 — 25,929 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 — 6,354 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 3.69 — 378 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 — 185 ratings — published 1993
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.05 — 33,894 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 — 174 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 — 404 ratings — published 2008
Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.28 — 601 ratings — published 2005
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,079 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 — 269 ratings — published 1988
Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.93 — 425 ratings — published 2002
Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey (Vintage Departures)
by (shelved 13 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,095 ratings — published 1995
Learning to Labor (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.95 — 580 ratings — published 1977
The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.40 — 742 ratings — published 2010
The Yanomamö (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,351 ratings — published 1966
“[...] ethnography is what you do when you try to understand people by allowing their lives to mold your own as fully and genuinely as possible.”
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“I want to understand the world from your point of view. I want to know what you know in the way you know it. I want to understand the meaning of your experience, to walk in your shoes, to feel things as you feel them, to explain things as you explain them. Will you become my teacher and help me understand?”
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