Ethnography
Ethnography
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Grand Valley Dani: Peaceful Warriors
This case study examines an isolated tribe in Indonesia, West New Guinea, when tribe members were st...Read more
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Animals of the Soul: Sacred Animals of the Oglala Sioux
Dr. Brown is a renowned scholar and author of the bestselling The Sacred Pipe, in which he recounted...Read more
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When Women Come First: Gender and Class in Transnational Migration
With a subtle yet penetrating understanding of the intricate interplay of gender, race, and class, S...Read more
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Purchasing Power: Black Kids and American Consumer Culture
What does it mean to be young, poor, and black in our consumer culture? Are black children "brand-cr...Read more
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The Dobe Ju/ Hoansi
This classic, bestselling study of the !Kung San, foragers of the Dobe area of the Kalahari Desert d...Read more
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When Bodies Remember: Experiences and Politics of AIDS in South Africa
In this book, France's leading medical anthropologist takes on one of the most tragic stories of the...Read more
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Culture Smart! Hungary
Whether you are traveling in luxury or with just a pack on your back, it's important that you have a...Read more
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The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea
This re-examination of the Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea, the people described in Malinowski's cl...Read more
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Muslim Girls and the Other France: Race, Identity Politics, and Social Exclusion
"[Keaton] provides the most in-depth analysis of the predicament of French Arabs and Africans living...Read more
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The Stranger Next Door: The Story of a Small Community's Battle over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights
"By combining the meticulousness of an ethnographer with a writer's commitment to storytelling, Stei...Read more
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Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment
Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil’s big cities—places like Vita, whe...Read more
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Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death
Tales about organ transplants appear in mythology and folk stories, and surface in documents from me...Read more