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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.47 — 114,409 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 — 89,359 ratings — published 1997
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,653 ratings — published 1995
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,170 ratings — published 1992
Righteous Dopefiend (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,768 ratings — published 2008
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,489 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 — 1,483 ratings — published 1986
Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,263 ratings — published 1968
Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.92 — 765 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 — 8,197 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 — 1,768 ratings — published 1996
Argonauts of the Western Pacific (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,455 ratings — published 1922
Sidewalk (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,721 ratings — published 1999
The Forest People (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,523 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 — 3,379 ratings — published 2014
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.84 — 946 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 — 3,214 ratings — published 1928
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,697 ratings — published 1981
The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.55 — 2,304 ratings — published 2015
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 — 1,065 ratings — published 1940
Direct Action: An Ethnography (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.22 — 563 ratings — published 2009
Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.96 — 468 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 — 116,999 ratings — published 2012
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 19 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,651 ratings — published 2001
Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,291 ratings — published 1991
The Interpretation of Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,878 ratings — published 1973
Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,174 ratings — published 1937
Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.83 — 455 ratings — published 1970
Tristes Tropiques (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,161 ratings — published 1955
Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.68 — 596 ratings — published 1977
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,110 ratings — published 2008
Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.04 — 654 ratings — published 2004
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.12 — 17,920 ratings — published 2016
The Mountain People (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.80 — 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 — 25,565 ratings — published 2008
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 — 318 ratings — published 1943
Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.62 — 398 ratings — published 2008
Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.28 — 590 ratings — published 2005
Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.68 — 370 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 — 186 ratings — published 1993
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.05 — 32,907 ratings — published 2018
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,032 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
Learning to Labor (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.95 — 566 ratings — published 1977
The Yanomamö (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,338 ratings — published 1966
Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.93 — 410 ratings — published 2002
Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey (Vintage Departures)
by (shelved 12 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,039 ratings — published 1995
Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,032 ratings — published 2004
“In Samoa, ... children were given love and encouragement, and they were subjected to few prohibitions. They therefore grew up to be more harmonious and happy than the cowed, disciplined and sexually frustrated American adolescents.”
― What Is Anthropology?
― What Is Anthropology?
“In order for ethnology to live, its object must die; by dying, the object takes its revenge for being 'discovered' and with its death defies the science that wants to grasp it.”
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