Ethnographies

Field Notes: A Guided Journal for Doing Anthropology

Luis A. Vivanco

9780190642198
Spiral Bound
December 2016

A field journal for cultural anthropology and fieldwork courses, integrating learning, guidance, and exercises into one book

Haunted: An Ethnography of the Hollywood and Hong Kong Media Industries

Sylvia J. Martin

9780190464462
Paperback
September 2016

Issues of Globalization: Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology

Examines how media professionals handle the uncertainties and risks of media production in a globalizing world

Becoming Legal: Immigration Law and Mixed-Status Families

Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz

9780190276010
Paperback
June 2016

The only ethnography to examine family-based legalization from the perspective of families who undertake it

The Native World-System: An Ethnography of Bolivian Aymara Traders in the Global Economy

Nico Tassi

9780190255220
Paperback
March 2016

Issues of Globalization: Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology

A nuanced ethnography of the Bolivian Aymara trading system--one of the most up-and-coming forms of indigenous entrepreneurship on the American continent

City of Flowers: An Ethnography of Social and Economic Change in Costa Rica's Central Valley

Susan E. Mannon

9780190464431
Paperback
March 2016

Issues of Globalization: Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology

An engaging, timely ethnographic study that explores how individuals and households give meaning and shape to social and economic change in Costa Rica

Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in Rural West Africa

Joanna Davidson

9780199358687
Paperback
August 2015

Issues of Globalization: Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology

An ethnography of identity, environment, and development in rural West Africa

Race in the 21st Century: Ethnographic Approaches

Second Edition

John Hartigan, Jr.

9780199374373
Paperback
July 2014

Takes an explicitly ethnographic approach to the study of race, while also guiding students through ongoing debates about genetics and race

Discovering Qualitative Methods: Ethnography, Interviews, Documents, and Images

Third Edition

Carol A. B. Warren and Tracy Xavia Karner

9780199349623
Paperback
May 2014

A rigorous but student-friendly and affordable introduction to qualitative research methods

Amazon Town: A Study of Human Life in the Tropics

Anniversary Edition

Charles Wagley, Conrad Kottak, and Richard Pace

9780199335251
Paperback
November 2013

The classic ethnography of the Amazon, now updated and revised for today's students

Gangsters Without Borders: An Ethnography of a Salvadoran Street Gang

T.W. Ward

9780199859061
Paperback
June 2012

Issues of Globalization: Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology

A riveting ethnography on Salvadoran street gangs in Los Angeles

Listen, Here is a Story: Ethnographic Life Narratives from Aka and Ngandu Women of the Congo Basin

Bonnie L. Hewlett

9780199764235
Paperback
May 2012

Issues of Globalization: Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology

An ethnography on the lives of the foraging Aka and the farming Ngandu of the Central African Republic that explores women's roles in contemporary Africa.

Cuban Color in Tourism and La Lucha: An Ethnography of Racial Meanings

L. Kaifa Roland

9780199739660
Paperback
September 2010

Issues of Globalization: Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology

A brief, engaging ethnography on race and tourism in modern socialist Cuba that engages concepts of belonging and identity

Labor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network

Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz

9780199739387
Paperback
August 2010

Issues of Globalization: Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology

A brief, engaging ethnography on undocumented Mexican workers in America that engages contemporary debates on immigration policy

Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer

Loïc Wacquant

9780195305623
Paperback
November 2006

"[R]eveals a remarkable ethnographic and theatrical eye...a model account of a personal, embodied sociology..."-- American Journal of Sociology

Learning Capoeira: Lessons in Cunning from an Afro-Brazilian Art

Greg Downey

9780195176971
Paperback
March 2005

A provocative look at capoeira, a demanding acrobatic art that combines dance, ritual, music, and fighting style

Women As Ritual Experts: The Religious Lives of Elderly Jewish Women in Jerusalem

Susan Starr Sered

9780195111460
Paperback
November 1996

When Men Walk Dry: Portuguese Messianism in Brazil

Carole A. Myscofski

9781555402570
Paperback
January 1989

This book examines the nature of messianic movements by studying a specific case history. Carole Myscovski argues that underlying any single messianic movement is a messianic tradition that draws together messianic and related religious beliefs, rituals, and social structures.

You Gotta Deal with It: Black Family Relations in a Southern Community

Theodore R. Kennedy

9780195025927
Paperback
March 1980

Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande

E. E. Evans-Pritchard

9780198740292
Paperback
June 1976

To Hunt in the Morning

Janet Siskind

9780195018912
Paperback
April 1975