Ethnographies Useful for Book Reports.
Sorted Geographically.
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Date |
AFRICA |
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Bambo Jordan: An Anthropological Narrative |
Bruce T. Williams |
Waveland |
1994 |
Barabaig: East African Cattle Herders |
George J. Klima |
Waveland |
1985 |
Bunyoro: An African Kingdom |
John Beattie |
HRW |
1997 |
Children of the Forest: Africas Mbuti Pygmies |
Kevin Duffy |
Waveland |
1996 |
Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa |
Katherine Dettwyler |
Waveland |
1993 |
Dinka of the Sudan |
Francis Mading Deng |
Waveland |
1984 |
Dobe Juhoansi |
Richard B. Lee |
HRW |
1993 |
Experiencing Ritual: A New Interpretation of African Healing |
Edith Turner |
Pennsylvania 1992 |
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Forest People |
Colin Turnbull |
Touchstone Books |
1987 |
Freedom in Fulani Social Life: An Introspective Ethnography |
Paul Riesman |
Chicago |
1998 |
Fusion of the Worlds: An Ethnography of Possession Among the Songhay of Niger |
Paul Stoller |
Chicago |
1997 |
Hatchets Blood: Separation, Power, and Gender in Ehing Social Life |
Marc R. Schloss |
Arizona |
1993 |
Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa: A Comparative Ethnography of Khoisan Peoples |
Alan Barnard |
CUP |
1992 |
Igbo of Southeast Nigeria |
Victor Uchendu |
HRW |
1965 |
Juju: A Social History and Ethnography of an African Popular Music |
Christopher Alan |
Chicago Waterman |
1990 |
Justice and Judgment Among the Tiv |
Paul Bohannan |
Waveland |
1989 |
Kaguru: A Matrilineal People of East Africa |
Thomas O. Beidelman |
Waveland |
1983 |
Kapsiki of the Mandara Hills Walter |
E. A. Van Beek |
Waveland |
1987 |
Lugbara of Uganda |
John Middleton |
HRW |
1997 |
Mandingo: The Ethnography of a West African Holy Land |
Matt Schaffer, Christine Cooper |
Waveland |
1987 |
Mbuti Pygmies: Change and Adaptation |
Colin M. Turnbull |
HRW |
1997 |
Mountain People |
Colin M. Turnbull |
Touchstone Books |
1987 |
New Women of Lusaka |
Ilsa Glazer |
Mayfield |
1975 |
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman |
Marjorie Shostak |
Vintage |
1983 |
Nubian Ethnographies |
Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, Robert A. Fernea |
Waveland |
1990 |
Palms, Wine, and Witness: Public Spirit and Private Gain in an African Farming Community |
David J. Parkin |
Waveland |
1994 |
Parallel Worlds: An Anthropologist and a Writer Encounter Africa |
Alma Gottleib, Philip Graham |
Chicago |
1994 |
Peoples of the Horn of Africa: Somali, Afar, and Saho |
Ioan M. Lewis |
Red Sea Press |
1998 |
Placing the Dead: Tombs, Ancestral Villages, and Kinship Organization in Madagascar |
Maurice Bloch |
Waveland |
1993 |
Qemant: A Pagan-Hebraic Peasantry of Ethiopia |
Frederick C. Gamst |
Waveland |
1984 |
Song of Longing: An Ethiopian Journey |
Kay Kaufman Shelemay |
Illinois |
1994 |
Swazi, a South African Kingdom |
Hilda Kuper |
HRW |
1997 |
Under the Kapok Tree: Identity and Difference in Beng Thought |
Alma Gottlieb |
Chicago |
1996 |
Unraveling Somalia: Race, Violence, and the Legacy of Slavery |
Catherine Lowe Besteman |
Pennsylvania |
1999 |
When the Spider Danced: Notes from an African Village |
Alexander Alland, Jr. |
Waveland |
1990 |
Whose Development?: An Ethnography of Aid |
Emma Crewe, Elizabeth Harrison |
Zed |
1999 |
Womens Voices, Womens Power: Dialogues of Resistance from East Africa |
Judith Abwunza |
Broadview |
1997 |
Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria |
William Russell |
Waveland |
1984 |
Bascom |
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NORTH AFRICA |
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Herders of Cyrenaica: Ecology, Economy, and Kinship Among the Bedouin |
Roy H. Behnke |
Illinois |
1980 |
of Eastern Libya |
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Kafr El-Elow: Continuity and Change in an Egyptian Community |
Hani Fakhouri |
Waveland |
1987 |
Rashaayda Bedouin: Arab Pastoralists of Eastern Sudan |
William Young |
HRW |
1998 |
Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco |
Paul Rabinow |
California |
1977 |
Street in Marrakech |
Elizabeth Warnock Fernea |
Waveland |
1988 |
Tuhami: Portrait of a Moroccan |
Vincent Crapanzano |
Chicago |
1986 |
ASIA |
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Being Kammu: My Village, My Life |
Damrong Tayanin |
Cornell Univ. S.E. Asia Program |
1994 |
Business and Bureaucracy in a Chinese City: An Ethnography of Private Business Households in Contemporary China |
Ole Bruun |
Institute of East Asian, East Asian Studies, Univ. of California |
1993 |
Chinas Urban Villagers: Changing Life in a Beijing Suburb |
Norman Chance |
HRW |
1991 |
Contested Hierarchies: A Collaborative Ethnography of Caste Among the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal |
David N. Gellner, Declan Quigley |
Oxford |
1999 |
Ethnic Identity in China: The Making of a Muslim Minority Nationality |
Dru C. Gladney |
HRW |
1997 |
Fields on the Hoof: Nexus of Tibetan Nomadic Pastoralism |
Robert B. Ekvall |
Waveland |
1983 |
Fighting for Faith and Nation: Dialogues with Sikh Militants |
Cynthia Keppley Mahmood |
Pennsylvania |
1996 |
Fishermen of South Thailand: The Malay Villagers |
Thomas M. Fraser |
Waveland |
1984 |
Fluid Signs: Being a Person the Tamil Way |
E. Valentine Daniel California |
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1987 |
Friend by Day, Enemy by Night: Organized Vengeance in a Kohistani Community |
Lincoln Keiser |
HRW |
1991 |
From Longhouse to Village: Samo Social Change |
Daniel Shaw |
HRW |
1995 |
Gopalpur: A South Indian Village Fieldwork Edition |
Alan Beals |
HRW |
1980 |
Hill Farms and Padi Fields: Life in Mainland Southeast Asia |
Robbins Burling |
Ariz. State Univ. Prog.for S.E. Asian Studies |
1995 |
Himalayan Herders |
Naomi Hawes Bishop |
HRW |
1998 |
Himalayan Households: Taming Demography and Domestic Processes |
Tom Fricke |
Columbia |
1994 |
Hindus of the Himalayas: Ethnography and Change |
Gerald D. Berreman |
Oxford |
1997 |
Irulas of the Blue Mountains |
Kamil V. Zvelebil |
Syracuse Univ. Foreign and Comparative Studies Prog. |
1988 |
Japanese Workers in Protest: An Ethnography of Consciousness and Experience |
Christena L. Turner |
California |
1999 |
Jingpo: Kachin of the Yunnan Plateau |
Zhusheng Wang |
Ariz. State Univ. |
1997 |
Kun Shen: A Taiwan Village |
Norma Diamond |
Irvington Publishers |
1982 |
Life and Hard Times of a Korean Shaman |
Laurel Kendall |
Hawaii |
1988 |
Living in the Middle: Sherpas of the Mid-Range Himalayas |
Donna M. Sherpa |
Waveland |
1993 |
Mad Dogs, Englishmen, and the Errant Anthropologist: Fieldwork in Malaysia |
Douglas Raybeck |
Waveland |
1996 |
Maid to Order in Hong Kong: An Ethnography of Filipina Workers |
Nicole Constable, Nick Constable |
Cornell |
1997 |
Native and Newcomer: Making and Remaking a Japanese City |
Jennifer Robertson |
California |
1994 |
Neighborhood Tokyo |
Theodore C. Bestor |
Stanford |
1989 |
Neither Man nor Woman: The Hijras of India |
Serena Nanda |
Wadsworth |
1990 |
Order in Paradox: Myth, Ritual, and Exchange Among Nepals Tamang |
David H. Holmberg |
Cornell |
1992 |
Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema |
Rey Chow |
Columbia |
1995 |
Scarcity and Opportunity in an Indian Village |
James M. Freeman |
Waveland |
1985 |
Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India |
Purnima Mankekar |
Duke |
1999 |
Sinhalese Village in Sri Lanka: Coping with Uncertainty |
Victoria J. Baker |
HRW |
1998 |
Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels: Folk Narrative in Hindu Religious Teaching |
Kirin Narayan |
Pennsylvania |
1989 |
Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas: An Ethnography of Himalayan Encounters |
Vincanne Adams |
Princeton |
1996 |
Trading Crowd: An Ethnography of the Shanghai Stock Market |
Ellen Hertz |
CUP |
1998 |
AUSTRALIA |
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Inside Nursing: A Critical Ethnography of Clinical Nursing Practice |
Annette Fay Street |
SUNY |
1992 |
Mardu Aborigines: Living the Dream in Australias Desert |
Robert Tonkinson |
HRW |
1997 |
Tiwi of North Australia |
C. W. M. Hart, Arnold Pilling, Jane C. Goodale |
HRW |
1987 |
Tiwi Wives: A Study of the Women of Melville Island, North Australia |
Jane C. Goodale |
Waveland |
1994 |
CANADA |
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Coping Strategies and Street Life: The Ethnography of Winnipegs Skid Row |
Christopher Haugh |
Winnipeg 1985 |
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In the Shadow of Antichrist: The Old Believers of Alberta |
David Scheffel |
Broadview |
1991 |
Labrador Village |
John C. Kennedy |
Waveland |
1996 |
Linguistic Minorities and Modernity: A Sociolinguistic Ethnography |
Monica Heller |
Longman |
1999 |
Other Worlds: Society Seen Through Soap Opera |
Dorothy Anger |
Broadview |
1999 |
Over the Next Hill: An Ethnography of RVing Seniors in North America |
Dorothy Ayers Counts, David R. Counts |
Broadview |
1996 |
Social Working: An Ethnography of Front-Line Practice |
Gerald A. J. De Montigny |
Toronto |
1995 |
Way of the Pipe: Aboriginal Spirituality and Symbolic Healing in Canadian Prisons |
James Waldram |
Broadview |
1997 |
CENTRAL AMERICA, MEXICO, AND THE CARIBBEAN |
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Aztecs of Central Mexico: An Imperial Society |
Frances Berdan |
HRW |
1997 |
Crab Antics: A Caribbean Study of the Conflict Between Reputation and Respectability |
Peter J. Wilson |
Waveland |
1995 |
In the Eyes of the Ancestors: Belief and Behavior in a Maya Community |
June Nash |
Waveland |
1985 |
In the Shadow of Tlaloc: Life in a Mexican Village |
Gregory G. Reck |
Waveland |
1986 |
Isthmus Zapotecs: A Matrifocal Culture of Mexico Chiñas |
Beverly Newbold |
HRW |
1997 |
La Zandunga: Of Fieldwork and Friendship in Southern Mexico Chiñas |
Beverly Newbold |
Waveland |
1993 |
Life, Ritual, and Religion Among the Lacandon Maya |
R. Jon McGee |
Wadsworth |
1990 |
Maya Indians of Sonora: A People Who Refuse to Die |
N. Ross Crumrine |
Waveland |
1988 |
Mixe of Oaxaca: Religion, Ritual, and Healing |
Frank Joseph Lipp, Munro S. Edmonson |
Texas |
1998 |
Tepoztlan: Village in Mexico |
Oscar Lewis |
HRW |
1997 |
Urban Poor of Puerto Rico: A Study in Development and Inequality |
Helen Icken Safa |
HRW |
1974 |
Winds of Ixtepeji: World View and Society in a Zapotec Town |
Michael Kearney |
Waveland |
1986 |
Women and the Ancestors: Black Carib Kinship and Ritual |
Virginia Kerns, Constance R. Sutton |
Illinois |
1997 |
Zinacantecos of Mexico: A Modern Maya Way of Life |
Evon Vogt |
HRW |
1997 |
SOUTH AMERICA |
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Assault on Paradise: Social Change in a Brazilian Village |
Conrad Kottak |
McGraw Hill |
1998 |
Black Frontiersmen: Afro-Hispanic Culture of Ecuador and Colombia |
Norman E. Whitten |
Waveland |
1986 |
Canela: Bonding Through Kinship, Ritual, and Sex |
William Crocker, Jean Crocker |
HRW |
1994 |
Condor Qatat: Anthropology in Performance |
Catherine Allen |
Waveland |
1997 |
East Indians in Trinidad: A Study of Cultural Persistence |
Morton Klass |
Waveland |
1988 |
Food, Gender and Poverty in the Ecuadorian Andes |
Mary J. Weismantel |
Waveland |
1998 |
Getting to Know Waiwai: An Amazonian Ethnography |
Alan Tormaid Campbell |
Routledge |
1995 |
Headman and I: Ambiguity and Ambivalence in the Fieldworking Experiencee |
Jean-Paul Dumont |
Waveland |
1991 |
How Real People Ought to Live: The Cashinahua of Eastern Peru |
Kenneth M. Kensinger |
Waveland |
1995 |
Mapuche Indians of Chile |
Louis C. Faron |
Waveland |
1986 |
Mystic Endowment; Religious Ethnography of the Warao Indians |
Johannes Wilbert |
Harvard |
1993 |
Pacca Nova: Clash of Cultures on the Brazilian Frontier |
Bernard von Graeve |
Broadview |
1989 |
Pathways of Memory and Power: Ethnography and History Among an Andean People |
Thomas Alan Abercrombie |
Wisconsin |
1998 |
Performing Dreams: Discourses of Immortality Among the Xavante of Central Brazil |
Laura R. Graham |
Texas |
1998 |
San Rafael, Camba Town: Life in a Lowland Bolivian Peasant Community |
Allyn MacLean Stearman |
Waveland |
1995 |
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Sanuma Memories: Yanomami Ethnography in Times of Crisis |
Alcida Rita Ramos |
Wisconsin |
1995 |
Spears of Twilight |
Philippe Descola |
New Press |
1998 |
Taste of Blood: Spirit Possession in Brazilian Candomble |
Jim Wafer |
Pennsylvania |
1991 |
To Defend Ourselves: Ecology and Ritual in an Andean Village |
Billie Jean Isbell |
Waveland |
1985 |
Visionary Vine: Hallucinogenic Healing in the Peruvian Amazon |
Marlene Dobkin De Rios |
Waveland |
1984 |
Waorani: The Contexts of Violence and War |
Clayton Allen Robarchek, Carole Robarchek |
HRW |
1997 |
Yanomamo |
Napoleon A. Chagnon |
HRW |
1996 |
Yuqui: Forest Nomads in a Changing World |
Allyn Stearman |
HRW |
1997 |
EUROPE |
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Anthropology Through the Looking Glass: Critical Ethnography in the Margins of Europe |
Michael Herzfeld |
CUP |
1989 |
Blood Revenge: The Enactment and Management of Conflict in Montenegro and Other Tribal Societies |
Christopher Boehm |
Pennsylvania |
1987 |
Company She Keeps: An Ethnography of Girls Friendships |
Valerie Hey |
Open Univ. |
1997 |
First Fieldwork: The Misadventures of an Anthropologist |
Barbara Gallatin Anderson |
Waveland |
1990 |
Generation Adrift: An Ethnography of a Criminal Moroccan Gang in the Netherlands |
Hans Werdmolder |
Kluwer |
1998 |
Gypsies |
Jan Yoors |
Waveland |
1987 |
Hidden Life of Tirol |
Martha C. Ward |
Waveland |
1993 |
In Place: Spatial and Social Order in a Faeroe Islands Community |
Dennis Gaffin |
Waveland |
1996 |
Irish Countryman: An Anthropological Study |
Conrad M. Arensberg |
Waveland |
1988 |
Irish Tinkers: Urbanization of an Itinerant People |
George Gmelch |
Waveland |
1985 |
Launching Europe: An Ethnography of European Cooperation in Space Science |
Stacia E. Zabusky |
Princeton |
1995 |
Marketing and Modernity: An Ethnography of Marketing Practice |
Marianne Lien |
Berg |
1997 |
Occasions of Faith: An Anthropology of Irish Catholics |
Lawrence J. Taylor |
Pennsylvania |
1995 |
Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village |
Michael Herzfeld |
Princeton |
1988 |
Presence of the Past in a Spanish Village: Santa Maria Del Monte |
Ruth Behar |
Princeton |
1991 |
¡Qué Gitano! Gypsies of Southern Spain |
Bertha B. Quintana, Lois G. Floyd |
Irvington |
1983 |
Time of the Gypsies |
Michael Stewart |
Westview |
1997 |
Village in Malta (Fieldwork Edition) |
Jeremy Boissevain |
HRW |
1980 |
Village on the Border: A Social Study of Religion, Politics and Football in a North Wales Community |
Ronald Frankenberg |
Waveland |
1989 |
Voyage to Greenland: A Personal Initiation into Anthropology |
Frederica De Laguna |
Waveland |
1995 |
We Have Already Cried Many Tears: The Stories of Three Portuguese Migrant Women |
Caroline B. Brettell |
Waveland |
1995 |
MIDDLE EAST |
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Being There: The Necessity of Fieldwork |
Daniel Bradburd |
Smithsonian |
1998 |
Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village |
Elizabeth Warnock Fernea |
Anchor |
1969 |
Kafr El-Elow: Continuity and Change in an Egyptian Community |
Hani Fakhouri |
Waveland |
1987 |
Nomads of South Persia: The Basseri Tribe of the Khamseh Confederacy |
Fredrik Barth |
Waveland |
1986 |
Overlooking Nazareth: The Ethnography of Exclusion in Galilee |
Dan Rabinowitz |
CUP |
1997 |
NORTH AMERICAN INDIGENEOUS PEOPLES |
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Aleuts: Survivors of The Bering Land Bridge |
William Laughlin |
HRW |
1997 |
Cheyennes: Indians of the Great Plains |
E. Adamson Hoebel |
HRW |
1978 |
Cibecue Apache |
Keith Basso |
Waveland |
1986 |
Dreamers with Power: The Menominee |
George Spindler |
Waveland |
1984 |
Feasting with Mine Enemy: Rank and Exchange Among Northwest Coast Societies |
Abraham Rosman, Paula G. Rubel |
Waveland |
1986 |
Huron, Farmers of the North |
Bruce G. Trigger |
HRW |
1990 |
Inupiat and Arctic Alaska: An Ethnography of Development |
Norman A. Chance |
HRW |
1997 |
Kwakiutl: Indians of British Columbia |
Ronald P. Rohner, Evelyn C. Bettauer |
Waveland |
1986 |
Lakota of the Rosebud: A Contemporary Ethnography |
Elizabeth S. Grobsmith |
HRW |
1997 |
Living on the Land: Chang eAmong the Inuit of Baffin Island |
John Matthiason |
Broadview |
1992 |
MiKmaq: Resistance, Accommodation, and Cultural Survival |
Harald E. L. Prins |
HRW |
1997 |
Navajo |
James F. Downs |
Waveland |
1984 |
Netsilik Eskimo |
Asen Balikci |
Waveland |
1989 |
Northern Passage: Ethnography and Apprenticeship Among the Subarctic Dene |
Robert Jarvenpa |
Waveland |
1998 |
Ojibwa of Berens River, Manitoba: Ethnography into History A. |
Irving Hallowell, Jennifer Brown |
HRW |
1992 |
Papago Woman |
Ruth M. Underhill |
Waveland |
1984 |
Power of Kiowa Song: A Collaborative Ethnography |
Luke E. Lassiter |
Arizona |
1998 |
Yupiaq Worldview: A Pathway to Ecology and Spirit A. |
Oscar Kawagley |
Waveland |
1995 |
OCEANIA |
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Always Hungry, Never Greedy: Food and the Expression of Gender in a Melanesian Society |
Miriam Kahn |
Waveland |
1994 |
Argonauts of the Western Pacific |
Bronislaw Malinowski |
Waveland |
1984 |
Balinese |
J. Stephen Lansing |
HRW |
1997 |
Bamboo Fire: Field Work with the New Guinea Wape |
William E. Mitchell |
Waveland |
1987 |
Becoming Tongan: An Ethnography of Childhood |
Helen Morton Hawaii |
1996 |
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Blood Is Their Argument: Warfare Among the Mae Enga Tribesmen of the New Guinea Highlands |
Mervyn Meggitt |
Mayfield |
1976 |
Crescent Arises over the Banyan Tree: A Study of the Muhammadiyah Movement in a Central Javanese Town |
Mitsuo Nakamura |
Ohio Univ. |
1984 |
Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim Society |
Nancy D. Munn |
Duke |
1992 |
Feasts of Honor: Ritual and Change in the Toraja Highlands |
Toby Alice Volkman |
Illinois |
1985 |
Grand Valley Dani: Peaceful Warriors |
Karl G. Heider |
HRW |
1996 |
Guardians of the Flutes: Idioms of Masculinity |
Gilbert H. Herdt |
Chicago |
1994 |
Iban of Sarawak: Chronicle of a Vanishing World |
Vinson H. Sutlive, Jr. |
Waveland |
1988 |
Ilongot Headhunting, 18831974: A Study in Society and History |
Renato Rosaldo |
Stanford |
1986 |
Javanese Family: A Study of Kinship and Socialization |
Hildred Geertz |
Waveland |
1989 |
Kuru Sorcery: Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands |
Shirley Lindenbaum |
Mayfield |
1979 |
Lamotrek Atoll and Inter-Island Socioeconomic Ties |
William H. Alkire |
Waveland |
1989 |
Living in a Lean-To: Philippine Negrito Foragers in Transition |
Nevin K. Rai |
Univ. Michigan Museum |
1990 |
Nest in the Wind: Adventures in Anthropology on a Tropical Island |
Martha C. Ward |
Waveland |
1989 |
Nine Dayak Nights |
William Robert Geddes |
Oxford |
1985 |
Padju Epat: The Maanyan of Indonesian Borneo |
Alfred B. Hudson |
Irvington |
1982 |
Rapanui: Tradition and Survival on Easter Island |
Grant McCall |
Hawaii |
1994 |
Road Belong Cargo: A Study of the Cargo Movement in the Southern Madang District, New Guinea |
Peter Lawrence |
Waveland |
1989 |
Road Through the Rain Forest: Living Anthropology in Highland Papua New Guinea |
David M. Hayano |
Waveland |
1990 |
Sambia: Ritual and Gender in New Guinea |
Gilbert Herdt |
HRW |
1997 |
Samoan Planters: Tradition and Economic Development in Polynesia |
Tim OMeara |
HRW |
1997 |
Samoan Village: Then and Now |
Lowell D. Holmes, Ellen Rhoads Holmes |
HRW |
1992 |
Seagulls Dont Fly into the Bush: Cultural Identity and Development in Melanesia |
Alice Pomponio |
Wadsworth |
1991 |
Society and Cosmos: Chewong of Peninsular Malaysia |
Signe Howell |
Chicago |
1989 |
Sorcerers of Dobu: The Social Anthropology of the Dobu Islanders of the Western Pacific |
R. F. Fortune |
Waveland |
1989 |
Tausug: Violence and Law in a Philippine Moslem Society |
Thomas M. Kiefer |
Waveland |
1986 |
Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea |
Annette B. Weiner |
HRW |
1988 |
Ulithi: A Micronesian Design for Living |
William Armand Lessa |
Waveland |
1986 |
Weekend Warriors: Alcohol in a Micronesian Culture |
Mac Marshall |
Mayfield |
1978 |
White Man Will Eat You: An Anthropologist Among the Imbonggu of New Guinea |
William Wormsley |
HRW |
1993 |
Women of Value, Men of Renown: New Perspectives in Trobriand Exchange |
Annette Weiner |
Texas |
1983 |
Words of the Lagoon: Fishing and Marine Lore in the Palau District of Micronesia |
R. E. Johannes |
California |
1992 |
UNITED STATES |
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Adolescent Life and Ethos: An Ethnography of a U.S. High School |
Heewon Chang |
Falmer Press |
1992 |
Amish Children: Education in the Family, School, and Community |
John Hostetler, Gertrude Hostetler |
HRW |
1992 |
Appalachian Valley |
George L. Hicks |
Waveland |
1992 |
Caught in the Middle: Korean Merchants in Americas Multiethnic Cities |
Pyong Gap Min |
California |
1996 |
Changes and Conflicts: Korean Immigrant Families in New York |
Pyong Gap Min |
Allyn & Bacon |
1998 |
Changing Identities: Vietnamese Americans 19751995 |
James M. Freeman |
Allyn & Bacon |
1996 |
Channeling Zone: American Spirtuality in an Anxious Age |
Michael F. Brown |
Harvard |
1999 |
Cocktail Waitress: Womans Work in a Mans World |
James Spradley, Brenda Mann |
McGraw Hill |
1975 |
Coming of Age in New Jersey: College and American Culture |
Michael Moffatt |
Rutgers |
1989 |
Community in a Black Pentecostal Church: An Anthropological Study |
Melvin D. Williams |
Waveland |
1984 |
Corn Fests and Water Carnivals: Creating Community in Minnesota |
Robert H. Lavenda |
Smithsonian |
1997 |
Distant Mirrors: America as a Foreign Culture |
Philip DeVita |
Wadsworth |
1993 |
Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship: The New Chinese Immigrants in the San Francisco Bay Area |
Bernard Wong |
Allyn & Bacon |
1998 |
From the Ganges to the Hudson: Indian Immigrants in New York City |
Johanna Lessinger |
Allyn & Bacon |
1996 |
From the Workers State to the Golden State: Jews From the Former Soviet Union in California |
Steven J. Gold |
Allyn & Bacon |
1996 |
Heartland Chronicles |
Douglas E. Foley |
Pennsylvania |
1995 |
High Art Down Home: An Economic Ethnography of a Local Art Market |
Stuart Plattner |
Chicago |
1998 |
Holy Women, Wholly Women: Sharing Ministries of Wholeness Through Life Stories and Reciprocal Ethnography |
Elaine J. Lawless |
Pennsylvania |
1993 |
Hutterites in North America |
John Hostetler, Beulah Hostetler |
HRW |
1995 |
The Gurus Gift: An Ethnography Exploring Gender Equality with North American Sikh Women |
Cynthia Mahmood, Stacy Brady |
Mayfield |
2000 |
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio |
Philippe Bourgois |
CUP |
1996 |
Invisible Minority: Brazilians in New York City |
Maxine L. Margolis |
Allyn & Bacon |
1998 |
Learning Capitalist Culture: Deep in the Heart of Tejas |
Douglas Foley |
Pennsylvania |
1990 |
Little Brazil: An Ethnography of Brazilian Immigrants in New York City |
Maxine L. Margolis |
Princeton |
1994 |
Looking West: Excursions in a Landscape of Vision and Display |
John Dorst |
Pennsylvania |
1999 |
Making It Crazy: An Ethnography of Psychiatric Clients in an American Community |
Sue E. Estroff |
California |
1985 |
Making PCR: A Story of Biotechnology |
Paul Rabinow |
Chicago |
1997 |
Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White, Second Edition |
James W. Loewen |
Waveland |
1988 |
New Pioneers in the Heartland: Hmong Life in Wisconsin |
Jo Ann Koltyk |
Allyn & Bacon |
1998 |
On Being Different: Diversity and Multiculturalism in the North American Mainstream |
Conrad Phillip Kottak, Kathryn A. Kozaitis |
McGraw-Hill |
1998 |
Opportunity House: Ethnographic Stories of Mental Retardation |
Michael V. Angrosino |
Altamira |
1998 |
Patterns of American Culture: Ethnography and Estrangement |
Dan Rose |
Pennsylvania |
1991 |
Personas Mexicanas: Chicano High Schoolers in a Changing Los Angeles |
James Diego Vigil |
HRW |
1997 |
Pride Against Prejudice: Haitians in the United States |
Alex Stepick |
Allyn & Bacon |
1998 |
Prime-Time Society: An Anthropological Analysis of Television and Culture |
Conrad Kottak |
Wadsworth |
1990 |
Reflections on the Folklife Festival: An Ethnography of Participant Experience |
Richard Bauman |
Indiana Univ. Folklore Institute |
1992 |
Rural Women Battering and the Justice System: An Ethnography |
Neil Websdale |
Sage |
1997 |
Salvadorans in Suburbia: Symbiosis and Conflict |
Sarah J. Mahler |
Allyn & Bacon |
1996 |
Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society |
Leo R. Chavez |
HRW |
1997 |
Shelter Blues: Sanity and Selfhood Among the Homeless |
Robert R. Desjarlais |
Pennsylvania |
1997 |
Taking Refuge: Lao Buddhists in North America |
Penny Van Esterik |
Arizona State Univ. Program for S.E. Asian Studies |
1993 |
Talking About Machines: An Ethnography of a Modern Job |
Julian E. Orr |
Cornell |
1996 |
Them Children: A Study in Language Learning |
Martha C. Ward |
Waveland |
1986 |
Vice Lords: Warriors of the Streets |
Lincoln Keiser |
HRW |
1992 |
Visa for a Dream: Dominicans in the United States |
Patricia Pessar |
Allyn & Bacon |
1995 |
Wheeling and Dealing: An Ethnography of an Upper-Level Drug Dealing and Smuggling Community |
Patricia A. Adler |
Columbia |
1993 |
Written Suburb: An American Site, an Ethnographic Dilemma |
John D. Dorst |
Pennsylvania |
1989 |
You Owe Yourself a Drunk: An Ethnography of Urban Nomads |
James P. Spradley |
Univ. Press of America |
1988 |
List of Favorite Ethnographies Selected by Anthropologists: source http://members.tripod.com/anneballenger/anthro/ethlist.html
Anderson, Elijah. 1990. Streetwise: Race, Class and Change in an Urban Community. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Agar, Mike.1973. Ripping and Running: A Formal Ethnography of Urban Heroin Addicts. Applebaum, Herbert P.1981 Royal Blue: The Culture of Construction Workers. Fort Worth: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Bourgois,Philippe 1995. In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio. New York: Cambridge Cassell, Joan 1991 Expected Miracles: Surgeons at Work. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Chambliss, Dan. 1996. Beyond Caring. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Cornelisen, Ann. 1977. Women of the Shadows: A Study of the Wives and Mothers of Southern Italy NY: Random House/Vintage. Davis, Susan G. 1997 Spectacular Nature: Corporate Culture and the Sea World Experience. U. of California Press. Fadiman, Anne. 1997. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Fitchen, Janet M. 1995 Poverty in Rural America. A Case Study. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland. (reissue with changes of 1981 work on rural non-farm poverty in New York State) Fleischer, Mark. 1989. Warehousing Violence. Sage. Fleischer, Mark. 1995. Beggars and Thieves.U Wisconsin Fleischer, Mark. 1998. Dead End Kids. U Wisconsin. Gagne, Marie-Anik. 1994. A Nation Within A Nation: Dependency and the Cree. Montreal: Black Rose Books. Gladney, Dru.1989 (or 1990?). Chinese Muslums.Harvard U. Press. Gregory, Stephen. 1998. Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Halperin, Rhoda H. 1990 The Livelihood of Kin. Making Ends Meet "The Kentucky Way." Austin: University of Texas Press. Hamabata, Matthews. 1991. Crested Kimono, Cornell U.P. -- American anthropologist looking at marriage and family in upper class Japanese life Holland, Dorothy C. and Margaret A. Eisenhart 1990 Educated in Romance: Women, Achievement, and College Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Hull, Glynda.1992. "Their Chances? Slim and None": An Ethnographic Account of the Experiences of Low-Income People of Color in a Vocational Program and at Work. Berkeley: National Center for Research in Vocational Education. Hutnyk, John. 1996 The Rumour of Calcutta: Tourism, Charity and the Poverty of Representation. Zed Books. Kendall, Laurel. 1988. Life and Hard Times of a Korean Shaman, Univ. of Hawaii Press. Kingfisher, Catherine.1996.Women in the American Welfare Trap. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Lamphere, Louise.1987. From Working Daughters to Working Mothers: Immigrant Women in a New England Industrial Community. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Leacock, Eleanor.1969.Teaching and Learning in City Schools. New York: Basic Books. Liebow, Elliot. 1999. (Reprint edition).Tally's Corner : A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men. New York: Little Brown. Lowenhaupt Tsing, Anna. 1993 In the Realm of the Diamond Queen. Princeton U. Press. McCarthy Brown, Karen -- Mama Lola: A Voodou Priestess in Brooklyn (1991) University of California Press Macleod's, Jay. 1995. Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-income Neighborhood. Boulder: Westview Press. Merlan, Francesca. 1998. Caging the Rainbow: Places, Politics and Aborigines in a North Australian Town. Honolulu: U of Hawaii Press. Meyerhoff, Barbara 1978 Number Our Days. New York: Simon and Schuster. Moffatt, Michael.1989 Coming of Age in New Jersey: College and American Culture. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. Newman, Katherine 1989.Falling from Grace: The Experience of Downward Mobility in the American Middle Class. New York: Vintage Books. Newman, Katherine 1999. No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City. New York: Alfred A Knopf and Russell Sage Foundation. Okely, Judith. 1983. The Traveller-Gypsies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Passaro, Joanne. 1996. The Unequal Homeless: Men On The Streets, Women In Their Place. New York: Routledge. Portes, Alejandro and Alex Stepick. 1993.City on the Edge: The Transformation of Miami. Berkeley: University of California Press. Sharff, Jagna Wojcicka 1998.King Kong on 4th Street: Families and the violence of poverty on the Lower East Side. Westview. Spradley, James P., You Owe Yourself a Drunk: An Ethnography of Urban Nomads, 1970 (reissued 2000 with new introduction by Merrill Singer), Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, Inc. Stack, Carol 1974. All Our Kin:Strategies for Survival in a Black Community. New York: Harper and Row. Stack, Carol 1996. Call to Home: African Americans Reclaim the Rural South.New York: Basic Books. Stepick, Alex. 1997. Pride Against Prejudice, Haitians in the United States. Allyn & Bacon. Stewart, Kathleen. 1996. A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an "Other" America. Princeton University Press Taylor, Lawrence J. 1995. Occasions of Faith: An Anthropology of Irish Catholics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Watson, James (ed.) 1997. Golden Arches East, Stanford U.P.. Williams, Brett. 1988. Upscaling Downtown: Stalled Gentrification in Washington, DC. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. Allison, Anne. 1994. Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club. University of Chicago: Illinois. Arensberg, Conrad M. 1937,1968,1988. The Irish Countryman: An Anthropological Study. Waveland Press: Prospect Heights, Illinois. Aretxaga, Begona. 1997. Shattering Silence: Women, Nationalism, and Political Subjectivity in Northern Ireland. Princeton University Press: Princeton New Jersey. Bowen, Elenore Smith. 1964. Return to Laughter: An Anthropological Novel. Anchor Books, Double Day: New York. Deren, Maya. 1953. Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti. Documentext,McPherson & Company. Farmer, Paul. 1992. AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame. University of California Press. Finkler, Kaja. 1985. Spirtualist Healer's in Mexico. Bergin and Garvey:South Hadley: Boston. Finkler, Kaja. 1994. Women in Pain: Gender and Morbidity in Mexico. University of Pennsylvania Press: Penn. Gordon, Milton R. 1964. Assimilation in American Life: The Role of Race, Religion, and National Origins. University of Oxford Press: New York. Handler, Richard and Gable, Eric. 1997. The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg. Duke University Press: North Carolina. Johnson, Hayes and Broder, David S. 1997. The System:The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point. Back Bay Books, a Little, Brown and Company: New York. (See my review.) Liebow, Elliot. 1993. Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women. Free Press: New York. Lutz, Catherine A. and Collins, Jane L. 1993. Reading National Geographic. The University of Chicago Press: Chicago. Martin, Emily 1994. Flexible Bodies: The Role of the Immunity in American Culture from the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS. Beacon Press: Boston. Maybury-Lewis, David. 1965,1988. The Savage and the Innocent. Beacon Press:Boston, Mass. Schneider, David M. 1968,1980. American Kinship: A Cultural Account. University of Chicago Press: Chicago. Velez-Ibanez, Carlos C. 1997. Border Visions: Mexican Cultures of the Southwest United States. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. |