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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.47 — 116,192 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 — 90,094 ratings — published 1997
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,673 ratings — published 1995
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Centennial Book)
by (shelved 41 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,175 ratings — published 1992
Righteous Dopefiend (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,784 ratings — published 2008
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,548 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 — 1,500 ratings — published 1986
Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,279 ratings — published 1968
Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.92 — 770 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 3.95 — 8,464 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 — 1,801 ratings — published 1996
Argonauts of the Western Pacific (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,469 ratings — published 1922
Sidewalk (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,738 ratings — published 1999
The Forest People (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,544 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 — 3,392 ratings — published 2014
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.83 — 956 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 — 2,383 ratings — published 2015
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.55 — 3,245 ratings — published 1928
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,712 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 3.96 — 470 ratings — published 1992
Direct Action: An Ethnography (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.22 — 571 ratings — published 2009
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 21 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,227 ratings — published 2001
Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.90 — 760 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 — 118,134 ratings — published 2012
The Interpretation of Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,888 ratings — published 1973
Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,295 ratings — published 1991
Tristes Tropiques (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,242 ratings — published 1955
Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,177 ratings — published 1937
Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.83 — 461 ratings — published 1970
Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.86 — 317 ratings — published 1943
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 — 663 ratings — published 2004
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.07 — 25,791 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 — 18,138 ratings — published 2016
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,228 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 — 374 ratings — published 1979
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.05 — 33,525 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 — 171 ratings — published 2012
Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.62 — 400 ratings — published 2008
Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.28 — 599 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 3.87 — 185 ratings — published 1993
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,061 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 — 4,075 ratings — published 1995
Learning to Labor (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.95 — 574 ratings — published 1977
The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ethnography)
avg rating 4.40 — 729 ratings — published 2010
The Yanomamö (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,344 ratings — published 1966
Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ethnography)
avg rating 3.94 — 419 ratings — published 2002
“[...] ethnography is what you do when you try to understand people by allowing their lives to mold your own as fully and genuinely as possible.”
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“Whereas Radcliffe-Brown's structure is a social one, Lévi-Strauss's structure is mental or cognitive; ... 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?
