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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.47 — 117,053 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 — 90,480 ratings — published 1997
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,692 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 — 1,182 ratings — published 1992
Righteous Dopefiend (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,797 ratings — published 2008
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,571 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 — 3,284 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 — 1,476 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 — 8,573 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 — 1,809 ratings — published 1996
Sidewalk (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,741 ratings — published 1999
The Forest People (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,550 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 — 3,398 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 — 3,261 ratings — published 1928
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.83 — 962 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 — 2,411 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 3.97 — 471 ratings — published 1992
Direct Action: An Ethnography (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.22 — 574 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 — 118,620 ratings — published 2012
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 21 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,485 ratings — published 2001
Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.91 — 763 ratings — published 1986
Tristes Tropiques (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,278 ratings — published 1955
The Interpretation of Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,900 ratings — published 1973
Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,178 ratings — published 1937
Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,298 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 4.04 — 667 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 — 18,233 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 — 25,891 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 — 6,284 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 3.68 — 376 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 — 33,735 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 — 1,072 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 3.94 — 423 ratings — published 2002
Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey (Vintage Departures)
by (shelved 13 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,089 ratings — published 1995
Learning to Labor (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.95 — 577 ratings — published 1977
The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.40 — 738 ratings — published 2010
The Yanomamö (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,349 ratings — published 1966
“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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“You say that to (Franz) Boas science is "austere and impersonal." You know, that is just the thing that gets my goat. They have managed to take all the life out of science. Why be ashamed of the joy and the exaltations that are the blood of knowl-edge? Why pretend that you have no emotions? In another century they will look aghast at the funereal aspect of our science. They will say: those people were doing penance for something! ... We have driven our libido underground.”
— Jaime de Angulo, written in a letter to his friend and mentor, the linguist Edward Sapir
(Appears in the introduction to "Tracks Along the Left Coast" by Andrew Schelling)”
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— Jaime de Angulo, written in a letter to his friend and mentor, the linguist Edward Sapir
(Appears in the introduction to "Tracks Along the Left Coast" by Andrew Schelling)”
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