Ethnographies I enjoyed....and you might too

A Listmania! list by Duffryn (London)
 
The Time of the Gypsies (Studies in the Ethnographic Imagination)
1.  The Time of the Gypsies (Studies in the Ethnographic Imagination) by Michael Stewart
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  "Really interesting analysis of clash between 'us' and 'them' in a situation where we don't really realise we're the 'them'. Ok so its actually about Romania/Communism but its about us too!"
£22.87   Used & New from: £9.00

Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts
2.  Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts by Bruno Latour
The list author says:
  "Science is as constructed as everything else. I knew it!"
£17.90   Used & New from: £14.32

The Forest People (Touchstone Books)
3.  The Forest People (Touchstone Books) by Colin M. Turnbull
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  "The first ethnography I read...beautifully written"
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Mountain People
4.  Mountain People by Turnbull Colin M.
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  "Easy to read in its style, but not in its content....pretty traumatic"
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Death without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Centennial Book)
5.  Death without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Centennial Book) by Nancy Scheper-hughes
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  "Brazil - the most common cause of death in some parts is heart disease, others starvation.."
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Nuer Dilemmas: Coping with Money, War and the State
6.  Nuer Dilemmas: Coping with Money, War and the State by Sharon E Hutchinson
The list author says:
  "EE Evans Prtichard updated....."
£16.12   Used & New from: £9.74

Keeping Slug Woman Alive: A Holistic Approach to American Indian Texts
7.  Keeping Slug Woman Alive: A Holistic Approach to American Indian Texts by Greg Sarris
The list author says:
  "Interesting...."
£16.11   Used & New from: £1.43

Non-places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (Cultural Studies)
8.  Non-places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (Cultural Studies) by Marc Auge
The list author says:
  "How we identify with, create and imagine the spaces around us"
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Shamanism, Colonialism and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing
9.  Shamanism, Colonialism and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing by Taussig
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  "History of the rubber boom in 1880's S. America and its ramifications today"
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Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs (Morningside Books)
10.  Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs (Morningside Books) by P Willis
The list author says:
  "Fascinating....working class boys coming up against the state"
£17.50   Used & New from: £6.79
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Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates (Penguin Social Sciences)
11.  Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates (Penguin Social Sciences) by Erving Goffman
The list author says:
  "How to become institutionalised"
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Veiled Sentiments: Updated with a New Preface: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society
12.  Veiled Sentiments: Updated with a New Preface: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society by Lila Abu-lughod
The list author says:
  "Poetry & the lives of women in Bedouin society"
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The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut
13.  The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut by Nigel Barley
The list author says:
  "Not academic but not the point"
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