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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.47 — 113,120 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 — 88,845 ratings — published 1997
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,630 ratings — published 1995
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,162 ratings — published 1992
Righteous Dopefiend (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,755 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 — 1,469 ratings — published 1986
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,442 ratings — published 2013
Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,251 ratings — published 1968
Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.93 — 755 ratings — published 2008
Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,750 ratings — published 1996
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 3.96 — 8,025 ratings — published 2015
Argonauts of the Western Pacific (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,446 ratings — published 1922
Sidewalk (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,714 ratings — published 1999
On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries)
by (shelved 26 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,371 ratings — published 2014
The Forest People (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,506 ratings — published 1961
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.84 — 940 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 — 3,198 ratings — published 1928
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,690 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 — 2,243 ratings — published 2015
Direct Action: An Ethnography (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.21 — 558 ratings — published 2009
Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.96 — 466 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 — 1,060 ratings — published 1940
Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.90 — 756 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 — 116,417 ratings — published 2012
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 19 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,294 ratings — published 2001
Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,285 ratings — published 1991
The Interpretation of Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,859 ratings — published 1973
Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,165 ratings — published 1937
Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.83 — 453 ratings — published 1970
Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.67 — 591 ratings — published 1977
Tristes Tropiques (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,109 ratings — published 1955
Alive in the Writing: Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.10 — 169 ratings — published 2012
Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.03 — 651 ratings — published 2004
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,055 ratings — published 2008
The Mountain People (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.80 — 679 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 — 25,434 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 — 17,827 ratings — published 2016
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 — 396 ratings — published 2008
Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.28 — 588 ratings — published 2005
Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.69 — 369 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 — 32,635 ratings — published 2018
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,010 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 3.79 — 268 ratings — published 1988
Learning to Labor (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.95 — 561 ratings — published 1977
The Yanomamö (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,335 ratings — published 1966
Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.94 — 406 ratings — published 2002
Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,016 ratings — published 1995
Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,026 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?
“Shortly before his death in 1955, Radcliffe-Brown confessed in a letter to Lévi-Strauss that he would never understand the Frenchman's use of the term structure.”
― What Is Anthropology?
― What Is Anthropology?
