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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.47 — 115,347 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 55 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.20 — 89,750 ratings — published 1997
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,658 ratings — published 1995
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,176 ratings — published 1992
Righteous Dopefiend (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,777 ratings — published 2008
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,517 ratings — published 2013
Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society (updated with a new preface)
by (shelved 37 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,495 ratings — published 1986
Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,270 ratings — published 1968
Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.92 — 771 ratings — published 2008
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 3.96 — 8,322 ratings — published 2015
Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,784 ratings — published 1996
Argonauts of the Western Pacific (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,462 ratings — published 1922
Sidewalk (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,733 ratings — published 1999
The Forest People (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,530 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 — 3,384 ratings — published 2014
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.84 — 951 ratings — published 1995
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,705 ratings — published 1981
The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.55 — 2,344 ratings — published 2015
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 — 3,233 ratings — published 1928
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 3.46 — 1,066 ratings — published 1940
Direct Action: An Ethnography (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.22 — 566 ratings — published 2009
Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.96 — 469 ratings — published 1992
Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.90 — 758 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 — 117,588 ratings — published 2012
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 20 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.66 — 195,948 ratings — published 2001
Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,293 ratings — published 1991
The Interpretation of Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,882 ratings — published 1973
Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,174 ratings — published 1937
Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.83 — 459 ratings — published 1970
Tristes Tropiques (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,207 ratings — published 1955
Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.68 — 599 ratings — published 1977
Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.03 — 660 ratings — published 2004
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,172 ratings — published 2008
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.12 — 18,012 ratings — published 2016
The Mountain People (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.79 — 681 ratings — published 1972
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.07 — 25,679 ratings — published 2008
Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.68 — 374 ratings — published 1979
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.05 — 33,265 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 — 170 ratings — published 2012
Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.86 — 316 ratings — published 1943
Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.61 — 397 ratings — published 2008
Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.29 — 596 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 3.88 — 186 ratings — published 1993
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,045 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
Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey (Vintage Departures)
by (shelved 13 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,056 ratings — published 1995
Learning to Labor (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.95 — 570 ratings — published 1977
The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.40 — 720 ratings — published 2010
The Yanomamö (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,339 ratings — published 1966
Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.93 — 414 ratings — published 2002
“In considering the question, how do our presumptions about gender affect the way we hear sounds? I have cast my net rather wide and have mingled evidence from different periods of time and different forms of cultural expression-in a way that reviewers of my work like to dismiss as ethnographic naïveté. I think there is a place for naïveté in ethnography, at the very least as an irritant. Sometimes when I am reading a Greek text I force myself to look up all the words in the dictionary, even the ones I think I know. It is surprising what you learn that way. Some of the words turn out to sound quite different than you thought. Sometimes the way they sound can make you ask questions you wouldn't otherwise ask. Lately I have begun to question the Greek word sophrosyne. I wonder about this concept of self-control and whether it really is, as Greeks believed, an answer to most questions of human goodness and dilemmas of civility. I wonder if there might not be another idea of human order than repression, another notion of human virtue than self-control, another kind of human self than one based on dissociation of inside and outside. Or indeed, another human essence than self.”
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“We hope that general readers with an interest in Japan will find in these accounts of fieldwork a wide spectrum of illustrations of the grassroots realities of everyday life in contemporary Japanese communities, companies, institutions, and social movements.”
― Doing Fieldwork in Japan
― Doing Fieldwork in Japan
