27 Best

Ethnography Books

1

Life Beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic

2

Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work

3

Witches of America

4

The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker

5

American Zoo: A Sociological Safari

6

The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

7

The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail

8

Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine

9

Affluence Without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen

10

Renegade Dreams: Living through Injury in Gangland Chicago

11

Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds

12

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

13

In Search of Respect

14

Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil

15

Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village

16

Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society (updated with a new preface)

17

Righteous Dopefiend

18

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

19

Argonauts of the Western Pacific

20

Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande

21

The Nuer

22

Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman

23

The Forest People

24

On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City

25

Sidewalk

26

Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation