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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.47 — 112,153 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 4.20 — 88,431 ratings — published 1997
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,605 ratings — published 1995
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,155 ratings — published 1992
Righteous Dopefiend (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,744 ratings — published 2008
Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society (updated with a new preface)
by (shelved 37 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,461 ratings — published 1986
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,395 ratings — published 2013
Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,249 ratings — published 1968
Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,728 ratings — published 1996
Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.93 — 749 ratings — published 2008
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 — 7,900 ratings — published 2015
Argonauts of the Western Pacific (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,437 ratings — published 1922
Sidewalk (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,705 ratings — published 1999
The Forest People (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,497 ratings — published 1961
On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries)
by (shelved 26 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,364 ratings — published 2014
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.84 — 938 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 — 3,183 ratings — published 1928
Direct Action: An Ethnography (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.21 — 554 ratings — published 2009
The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.55 — 2,204 ratings — published 2015
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,680 ratings — published 1981
Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.97 — 462 ratings — published 1992
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 — 1,055 ratings — published 1940
Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.89 — 752 ratings — published 1986
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.98 — 115,995 ratings — published 2012
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 19 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,032 ratings — published 2001
Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,281 ratings — published 1991
The Interpretation of Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,848 ratings — published 1973
Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,159 ratings — published 1937
Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.83 — 451 ratings — published 1970
Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.68 — 589 ratings — published 1977
Tristes Tropiques (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,051 ratings — published 1955
The Mountain People (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.80 — 679 ratings — published 1972
Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.03 — 647 ratings — published 2004
Alive in the Writing: Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.10 — 168 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 3.97 — 6,010 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 — 25,326 ratings — published 2008
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.12 — 17,751 ratings — published 2016
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,004 ratings — published 2013
Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.86 — 315 ratings — published 1943
Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.60 — 393 ratings — published 2008
Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.28 — 586 ratings — published 2005
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 3.88 — 185 ratings — published 1993
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.05 — 32,474 ratings — published 2018
Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
by (shelved 13 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.80 — 266 ratings — published 1988
The Yanomamö (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,333 ratings — published 1966
Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of India (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.74 — 415 ratings — published 1989
Learning to Labor (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.95 — 558 ratings — published 1977
Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.94 — 404 ratings — published 2002
Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,003 ratings — published 1995
“Geertz (1973) describes how his wife and he were unable to establish a sensible relationship with the villagers in Bali because they were suspected of being government spies.”
― What Is Anthropology?
― What Is Anthropology?
“As we encounter each other, we see our diversity — of background, race, ethnicity, belief – and how we handle that diversity will have much to say about whether we will in the end be able to rise successfully to the great challenges we face today.”
― The State of the World Atlas
― The State of the World Atlas
