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Argonauts of the Western Pacificby Bronislaw MalinowskiISBN 0881330841 (0-88133-084-1)
Softcover, Waveland Pr Inc
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Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guineaby Bron MalinowskiISBN 0415090946 (0-415-09094-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Communityby Madeline D. Davis, Elizabeth Lapovsky KennedyISBN 0415902932 (0-415-90293-2)
Hardcover, Routledge
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Based on 13 years of research, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold ranges over such topics as sex, relationships, coming out, butch-fem roles, motherhood, aging, racism, work, oppression and pride. Kennedy and Davis provide a unique insider's perspective on butch-fem culture and argue that the roots of gay and lesbian liberation are found specifically in the determined resistance of working-class lesbians. [via]More editions of Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community:
The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Ways of Lifeby George B. GrinnellISBN 0803257724 (0-8032-5772-4)
Softcover, Bison Books
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The Cheyennes: Indians of the Great Plainsby Edward Adamson HoebelISBN 0030226864 (0-03-022686-4)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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The Coming of Age in Samoaby Margaret MeadISBN 0688309747 (0-688-30974-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisationby Margaret MeadISBN 0688050336 (0-688-05033-6)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation'Book summary:Rarely do science and literature come together in the same book. When they do -- as in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, for example -- they become classics, quoted and studied by scholars and the general public alike.
Margaret Mead accomplished this remarkable feat not once but several times, beginning with Coming of Age in Samoa. It details her historic journey to American Samoa, taken where she was just twenty-three, where she did her first fieldwork. Here, for the first time, she presented to the public the idea that the individual experience of developmental stages could be shaped by cultural demands and expectations. Adolescence, she wrote, might be more or less stormy, and sexual development more or less problematic in different cultures. The "civilized" world, she taught us had much to learn from the "primitive." Now this groundbreaking, beautifully written work as been reissued for the centennial of her birth, featuring introductions by Mary Pipher and by Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson.
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Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africaby Katherine DettwylerISBN 088133748X (0-88133-748-X)
Softcover, Waveland Pr Inc
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Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazilby Nancy Scheper-HughesISBN 0520075374 (0-520-07537-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South Americaby Michael T. TaussigISBN 0807841064 (0-8078-4106-4)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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The English: A Portrait of a Peopleby Jeremy PaxmanISBN 1585671762 (1-58567-176-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The English: A Portrait of a People'Book summary:What is it about the English? Not the British overall, not the Scots, not the Irish or the Welsh, but the English. Why do they seem so unsure of who they are? As Jeremy Paxman remarks in his preface to The English, being English "used to be so easy". Now, with the Empire gone, with Wales and Scotland moving into more independent postures, with the troubling specter of a united Europe (and despite the raucous hype of "Cool Britannia"), the English seem to have entered a collective crisis of national identity.
Jeremy Paxman has set himself the task of finding just what exactly is going on. Why, he wonders, "do the English seem to enjoy feeling so persecuted? What is behind the English obsession with games? How did they acquire their odd attitudes to sex and food? Where did they get their extraordinary capacity for hypocrisy?" He ranges widely in pursuit of answers, sifting through literature, cinema, and history. It is an intriguing investigation, encompassing many aspects of national life and character (such as it is), including the obligatory visit to that baffling phenomenon, the funeral of Princess Diana. Yet Paxman finds something fresh and interesting to say about even that now rather threadbare topic. In the end, he seems to find further questions to ask instead of answers. But why not? To him it is a sign that the English are acquiring a new sense of self. And some indication of this might lie in the obvious response to his remark that the English, being top of the British Imperial tree, had nicknames for their fellow nationalities--Jock, Taffy, Paddy, and Mick--but there was no corresponding name for an Englishman. Of course, there is one now, and it comes from one of the bits of empire to which so many undesirables were exported: Whinging Pom. --Robin Davidson, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Ethnicity at Work: Divided Labor on a Central American Banana Plantationby Philippe I. BourgoisISBN 080183693X (0-8018-3693-X)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Forest Peopleby Colin M. TrunbullISBN 0671640992 (0-671-64099-2)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Forest People'Book summary:Publisher: New York : Simon and Schuster Publication date: 1962 Subjects: Mbuti (African people) Ethnology -- Congo (Democratic Republic) Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. [via]
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Guests of the Sheikby Elizabeth Warnock FerneaISBN 0709102313 (0-7091-0231-3)
Hardcover, Hale
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Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Villageby Elizabeth Warnock FerneaISBN 0385014856 (0-385-01485-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Handbook of the Indians of Californiaby Alfred Louis KroeberISBN 0486233685 (0-486-23368-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Hutterites in North Americaby John Andrew HostetlerISBN 0155029150 (0-15-502915-0)
Softcover, Cengage Learning
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In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrioby Philippe BourgoisISBN 0521017114 (0-521-01711-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-Of-The-Way Placeby Anna Lowenhaupt TsingISBN 0691000514 (0-691-00051-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-Of-The-Way Place'Book summary:In this highly original and much-anticipated ethnography, Anna Tsing challenges not only anthropologists and feminists but all those who study culture to reconsider some of their dearest assumptions. By choosing to locate her study among Meratus Dayaks, a marginal and marginalized group in the deep rainforest of South Kalimantan, Indonesia, Tsing deliberately sets into motion the familiar and stubborn urban fantasies of self and other. Unusual encounters with her remarkably creative and unconventional Meratus friends and teachers, however, provide the opportunity to rethink notions of tradition, community, culture, power, and gender--and the doing of anthropology. Tsing's masterful weaving of ethnography and theory, as well as her humor and lucidity, allow for an extraordinary reading experience for students, scholars, and anyone interested in the complexities of culture.
Engaging Meratus in wider conversations involving Indonesian bureaucrats, family planners, experts in international development, Javanese soldiers, American and French feminists, Asian-Americans, right-to-life advocates, and Western intellectuals, Tsing looks not for consensus and coherence in Meratus culture but rather allows individual Meratus men and women to return our gaze. Bearing the fruit from the lively contemporary conversations between anthropology and cultural studies, In the Realm of the Diamond Queen will prove to be a model for thinking and writing about gender, power, and the politics of identity.
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The Internet: An Ethnographic Approachby Daniel Miller, Don SlaterISBN 1859733891 (1-85973-389-1)
Softcover, Berg Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach'Book summary:An examination of Internet culture and consumption. The Internet is increasingly shaping, and being shaped by, users' lives. From cybercafes to businesses, from middle class houses to squatters settlements, the authors have gathered material on subjects as varied as personal relations, commerce, sex and religion. Websites are also analyzed as new cultural formations acting as aesthetic traps. At every point, email chat and surfing are found to be exploited in ways that bring out both unforeseen attributes of the Internet and the contradictions of modern life. The material, taken from ethnographic work in Trinidad, adds depth to earlier discussions about the Internet as an expansion of space, the changes it effects to time and personhood, and the new political economy of the information age. A tie-in with the book's own website provides further illustrations.[via]More editions of The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach:
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The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essaysby Clifford GeertzISBN 0465097197 (0-465-09719-7)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Interpretation of Cultures'Book summary:In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. This groundbreaking book, winner of the 1974 Sorokin Award of the American Sociological Association, helped define for an entire generation of anthropologists what their field is ultimately about.[via]More editions of The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays:
Irish Countryman: An Anthropological Studyby Conrad M. ArensbergISBN 0881334014 (0-88133-401-4)
Softcover, Waveland Pr Inc
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Khul-Khaal: Five Egyptian Women Tell Their Storiesby Nayra AtiyaISBN 0815601816 (0-8156-0181-6)
Softcover, Syracuse Univ Pr
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The Lost World of the Kalahariby Laurens Van Der PostISBN 0156537060 (0-15-653706-0)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lost World of the Kalahari'Book summary:An account of the authors grueling, but ultimately successful, journey in 1957, through Africas remote, primitive Kalahari Desert, in search of the legendary Bushmen, the hunters who pray to the great hunters in the sky.[via]More editions of The Lost World of the Kalahari:
The Lost World of the Kalahari: With 'the Great and the Little Memory'by David Coulson, Lauren Van Der PostISBN 068808608X (0-688-08608-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Material Culture of the Chumash Interaction Sphere: Ceremonial Paraphernalia, Games, and Amusementsby Travis HudsonISBN 0879191074 (0-87919-107-4)
Softcover, Ballena Pr
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Material Culture of the Chumash Interaction Sphere: Clothing, Ornamentation, and Groomingby Travis HudsonISBN 087919104X (0-87919-104-X)
Softcover, Ballena Pr
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Material Culture of the Chumash Interaction Sphere: Food Preparation and Shelterby Travis HudsonISBN 0879191031 (0-87919-103-1)
Hardcover, Ballena Pr
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Material Culture of the Chumash Interaction Sphere: Manufacturing Processes, Metrology and Tradeby Travis HudsonISBN 0879191090 (0-87919-109-0)
Softcover, Ballena Pr
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Mules and Menby Zora Neale HurstonISBN 0253202086 (0-253-20208-6)
Softcover, Indiana University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mules and Men'Book summary:MULES AND MEN contains many types of tales, including fanciful myths devised to explain the mysteries of nature and life (why the rabbit has a short tail, why some people are black), imaginative stories about how to defeat the devil or win a loved one, and anecdotes that condemn American injustice toward blacks. Hurston also introduces the reader to the realm of Hoodoo, or Voodoo, and its practitioners. Hurston produced in MULES AND MEN a book that is not only a mine of information for professionals but a source of delight to the general reader. [via]
My Freshman Year: What A Professor Learned By Becoming A Studentby REBEKAH NATHANISBN 0143037471 (0-14-303747-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Nest in the Wind: Adventures in Anthropology on a Tropical Islandby Martha C. WardISBN 1577663683 (1-57766-368-3)
Softcover, Waveland Pr Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nest in the Wind: Adventures in Anthropology on a Tropical Island'Book summary:On a magnificent island in the middle of the Pacific lives a people who eat dogs, grow quarter-ton yams in secret, stage extraordinarily dramatic feasts, have exceptionally relaxed attitudes about sex, and ritually share a potent drink called kava. Nest in the Wind is a very personal record of the field experiences of a female anthropologist who managed a scientific research project on the lush, tropical island of Pohnpei in the early 1970s. Her picture of life on Pohnpei is gripping and accurate: living in a tin shack, speaking a new language, observing manners and following customs, finding food, adopting a son, earning a high title, becoming pregnant, and overcoming spells placed on her. The standard questions of ethnography, including family life, sex, childbirth, economics, politics, religion, medicine, magic and death, are thoroughly addressed, clothed in the easy format of personal experiences with real people. [via]
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Nisa, the Life and Words of a Kung Womanby Marjorie Shostak, NisaISBN 1853830607 (1-85383-060-7)
Hardcover, Earthscan Publications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nisa, the Life and Words of a !Kung Woman'Book summary:This classic paperback is available once again-and exclusively-from Harvard University Press. This book is the story of the life of Nisa, a member of the !Kung tribe of hunter-gatherers from southern Africa's Kalahari desert. Told in her own words-earthy, emotional, vivid-to Marjorie Shostak , a Harvard anthropologist who succeeded, with Nisa's collaboration, in breaking through the immense barriers of language and culture, the story is a fascinating view of a remarkable woman. [via]
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Nuer a Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutesby P. EvansISBN 0195003225 (0-19-500322-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Number Our Daysby Barbara MyerhoffISBN 0671254308 (0-671-25430-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Observers Observed: Essays on Ethnographic Fieldworkby George StockingsISBN 0299094545 (0-299-09454-5)
Softcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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Patterns of Cultureby Ruth BenedictISBN 0618619550 (0-618-61955-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Patterns of Culture'Book summary:For more than a generation, this pioneering book has been an indispensable introduction to the field of anthropology. Here, in her study of three sharply contrasting cultures, Benedict puts forward her famous thesis that a people's culture is an integrated whole, a "personality writ large." Includes a preface from Margaret Mead.[via] 
The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Villageby Michael HerzfeldISBN 0691102449 (0-691-10244-9)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Portraits of The Whiteman: Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols Among the Western Apacheby Keith H. BassoISBN 0521295939 (0-521-29593-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Portraits of The Whiteman: Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols Among the Western Apache'Book summary:'The Whiteman' is one of the most powerful and pervasive symbols in contemporary American Indian cultures. Portraits of 'the Whiteman': linguistic play and cultural symbols among the Western Apache investigates a complex form of joking in which Apaches stage carefully crafted imitations of Anglo-Americans and, by means of these characterizations, give audible voice and visible substance to their conceptions of this most pressing of social 'problems'. Keith Basso's essay, based on linguistic and ethnographic materials collected in Cibecue, a Western Apache community, provides interpretations of selected joking encounters to demonstrate how Apaches go about making sense of the behaviour of Anglo-Americans. This study draws on theory in symbolic anthropology, sociolinguistics, and the dramaturgical model of human communication developed by Erving Goffman. Although the assumptions and premises that shape these areas of inquiry are held by some to be quite disparate, this analysis shows them to be fully compatible and mutually complementary. [via]
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The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature and Artby James CliffordISBN 0674698436 (0-674-69843-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature and Art'Book summary:The Predicament of Culture is a critical ethnography of the West in its changing relations with other societies. Analyzing cultural practices such as anthropology, travel writing, collecting, and museum displays of tribal art, Clifford shows authoritative accounts of other ways of life to be contingent fictions, now actively contested in postcolonial contexts. His critique raises questions of global significance: Who has the authority to speak for any group's identity and authenticity? What are the essential elements and boundaries of a culture? How do self and "the other" clash in the encounters of ethnography, travel, and modern interethnic relations? In discussions of ethnography, surrealism, museums, and emergent tribal arts, Clifford probes the late-twentieth century predicament of living simultaneously within, between, and after culture.
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Return to Laughterby Elenore Smith BowenISBN 0385053126 (0-385-05312-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia: An Ethnographic Account of Courtship, Marriage, and Family Life Among the Natives of the Trobby B. MalinowskiISBN 0807046078 (0-8070-4607-8)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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Sidewalkby Mitchell Duneier, Ovie CarterISBN 0374527253 (0-374-52725-3)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sidewalk'Book summary:"I've had the luxury--if you can call it the luxury," says Hakim Hasan, "of working in the formal economy, and of working at certain companies that required a certain level of training, however rudimentary, and a certain level of education." Instead, he chooses to sell books from a table on the sidewalk in New York's Greenwich Village. Soon after he met sociologist Mitchell Duneier, Hakim described himself as a "public character," and sent Duneier scurrying to reread Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities to find out what he meant.
That moment was one of Duneier's inspirations to spend years studying--getting to know, really--Hakim and other book and magazine vendors on his patch of Sixth Avenue. Sidewalk explains much about the street vendors: How did this become legal? Where do vendors obtain their merchandise? How do they interact with potential customers? When do they find time to go to the bathroom (and, for that matter, where do they go)? But it's ultimately about the people themselves--quoted at length from Duneier's tape-recorded interviews and photographed by Ovie Carter--as they do their best to live successfully on their own terms, with all the good and bad consequences that entail. Some of these people (almost all men) are drug addicts, yes, and some of them choose to live as "unhoused" individuals. But many of them find a strong sense of purpose and identity in their work and choose to live in ways that best facilitate that work; they are as motivated--more, perhaps--as workers holding "respectable" office jobs. Nonacademic readers may glaze over at some of Duneier's longer explanations of his methodology, and he seems occasionally overapologetic when quoting the uncensored language of his subjects, but few books succeed at plunging the reader into a community and delineating the character of its members as Sidewalk does. [via]
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Culturesby Anne FadimanISBN 0374525641 (0-374-52564-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures'Book summary:Lia Lee was born in 1981 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epilepsy. By 1988 she was living at home but was brain dead after a tragic cycle of misunderstanding, overmedication, and culture clash: "What the doctors viewed as clinical efficiency the Hmong viewed as frosty arrogance." The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is a tragedy of Shakespearean dimensions, written with the deepest of human feeling. Sherwin Nuland said of the account, "There are no villains in Fadiman's tale, just as there are no heroes. People are presented as she saw them, in their humility and their frailty--and their nobility." [via]
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Tales of the Field on Writing Ethnographyby John Van MaanenISBN 0226849627 (0-226-84962-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Tally's Cornerby Elliot LiebowISBN 0316525146 (0-316-52514-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tally's Corner'Book summary:The first edition of Tally's Corner, a sociological classic selling more than one million copies, was the first compelling response to the culture of poverty thesis-- that the poor are different and, according to conservatives, morally inferior--and alternative explanations that many African Americans are caught in a tangle of pathology owing to the absence of black men in families. The debate has raged up to the present day. Yet Liebow's shadow theory of valuesespecially the values of poor, urban, black men-remains the single most parsimonious account of the reasons why the behavior of the poor appears to be at odds with the values of the American mainstream.
While Elliot Liebow's vivid narrative of "street-corner" black men remains unchanged, the new introductions to this long-awaited revised edition bring the book up to date. Wilson and Lemert describe the debates since 1965 and situate Liebow's classic text in respect to current theories of urban poverty and race. They account for what Liebow might have seen had he studied the street corner today after welfare has been virtually ended and the drug economy had taken its toll. They also take stock of how the new global economy is a source of added strain on the urban poor. Discussion of field methods since the 1960s rounds out the book's new coverage. [via]More editions of Tally's Corner:
Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Menby Elliot LiebowISBN 0742528960 (0-7425-2896-0)
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Tuhami: Portrait of a Moroccanby Vincent CrapanzanoISBN 0226118711 (0-226-11871-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tuhami: Portrait of a Moroccan'Book summary:Tuhami is an illiterate Moroccan tilemaker who believes himself married to a camel-footed she-demon. A master of magic and a superb story-teller, Tuhami lives in a dank, windowless hovel near the kiln where he works. Nightly he suffers visitations from the demons and saints who haunt his life, and he seeks, with crippling ambivalence, liberation from 'A'isha Qandisha, the she-demon.[via]
In a sensitive and bold experiment in interpretive ethnography, Crapanzano presents Tuhami's bizarre account of himself and his world. In so doing, Crapanzano draws on phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and symbolism to reflect upon the nature of reality and truth and to probe the limits of anthropology itself. Tuhami has become one of the most important and widely cited representatives of a new understanding of the whole discipline of anthropology.More editions of Tuhami: Portrait of a Moroccan:
Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Societyby Lila Abu-LughodISBN 0520224736 (0-520-22473-6)
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Women Of The Forestby Yolanda MurphyISBN 0231060890 (0-231-06089-0)
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Women Of The Forestby Robert F. Murphy, Yolanda Murphy, R. Brian FergusonISBN 0231132336 (0-231-13233-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women Of The Forest'Book summary:In the decades since it was first published, this study of Brazil's Mundurucu Indians has been widely read and has become regarded as a classic. Now, for the second edition, the authors have written a new chapter that describes their fieldwork during the year they spent living among the Mundurucu.
"Women of the Forest" details an acute and intriguing battle of the sexes in which reality squarely contradicts ideology. The Murphy's full-scale analysis considers the historical, ecological, and cultural setting in which the Mundurucu live, the mythology concerning women, the woman's work and household life, marriage and child rearing, and the impact of social change on the female role. The authors give particular attention to sexual antagonism and the means by which women compensate, in actual practice, for their low public position.
The new chapter gives the reader an idea of the nature of ethnographic fieldwork as both personal experience and scientific practice. It recounts how they coped with the language barrier, the practice of bartering rather than buying, and other day-to-day problems of living in a totally different culture. Thus, it provides an illuminating background to Mundurucu culture before the reader delves into the rich details of the study itself. At the same time the chapter helps the reader to learn about anthropological methods of data gathering. [via]-
Works and Lives: The Anthropologist As Authorby Clifford GeertzISBN 0804717478 (0-8047-1747-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Works and Lives: The Anthropologist As Author'Book summary:The illusion that ethnography is a matter of sorting strange and irregular facts into familiar and orderly categories-this is magic, that is technology-has long since been exploded. What it is instead, however, is less clear. That it might be a kind of writing, putting things to paper, has now and then occurred to those engaged in producing it, consuming it, or both. But the examination of it as such has been impeded by several considerations, none of them very reasonable. One of these, especially weighty among the producers, has been simply that it is an unanthropological sort of thing to do. What a proper ethnographer ought properly to be doing is going out to places, coming back with information about how people live there, and making that information available to the professional community in practical form, not lounging about in libraries reflecting on literary questions. Excessive concern, which in practice usually means any concern at all, with how ethnographic texts are constructed seems like an unhealthy self-absorption-time wasting at best, hypochondriacal at worst. The advantage of shifting at least part of our attention from the fascinations of field work, which have held us so long in thrall, to those of writing is not only that this difficulty will become more clearly understood, but also that we shall learn to read with a more percipient eye. A hundred and fifteen years (if we date our profession, as conventionally, from Tylor) of asseverational prose and literary innocence is long enough. [via]
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Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnographyby James Clifford, George E. MarcusISBN 0520057295 (0-520-05729-5)
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Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography A School of American Research, Advanced Seminarby James Clifford, George E. MarcusISBN 0520056523 (0-520-05652-3)
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Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotesby Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, Linda L. ShawISBN 0226206815 (0-226-20681-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes'Book summary:In this companion volume John van Maanen's Tales of the Field, three scholars reveal how the ethnographer turns direct experience and observation into written fieldnotes upon which an ethnography is based.[via]
Drawing on years of teaching and field research experience, the authors develop a series of guidelines, suggestions, and practical advice about how to write useful fieldnotes in a variety of settings, both cultural and institutional. Using actual unfinished, "working" notes as examples, they illustrate options for composing, reviewing, and working fieldnotes into finished texts. They discuss different organizational and descriptive strategies, including evocation of sensory detail, synthesis of complete scenes, the value of partial versus omniscient perspectives, and of first person versus third person accounts. Of particular interest is the author's discussion of notetaking as a mindset. They show how transforming direct observations into vivid descriptions results not simply from good memory but more crucially from learning to envision scenes as written. A good ethnographer, they demonstrate, must learn to remember dialogue and movement like an actor, to see colors and shapes like a painter, and to sense moods and rhythms like a poet.
The authors also emphasize the ethnographer's core interest in presenting the perceptions and meanings which the people studied attach to their own actions. They demonstrate the subtle ways that writers can make the voices of people heard in the texts they produce. Finally, they analyze the "processing" of fieldnotesthe practice of coding notes to identify themes and methods for selecting and weaving together fieldnote excerpts to write a polished ethnography.
This book, however, is more than a "how-to" manual. The authors examine writing fieldnotes as an interactive and interpretive process in which the researcher's own commitments and relationships with those in the field inevitably shape the character and content of those fieldnotes. They explore the conscious and unconscious writing choices that produce fieldnote accounts. And they show how the character and content of these fieldnotes inevitably influence the arguments and analyses the ethnographer can make in the final ethnographic tale.
This book shows that note-taking is a craft that can be taught. Along with Tales of the Field and George Marcus and Michael Fisher's Anthropology as Cultural Criticism, Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes is an essential tool for students and social scientists alike.More editions of Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes:
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Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Storiesby Lila Abu-LughodISBN 0520083040 (0-520-08304-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories'Book summary:In 1978 Lila Abu-Lughod climbed out of a dusty van to meet members of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community. Living in this Egyptian Bedouin settlement for extended periods during the following decade, Abu-Lughod took part in family life, with its moments of humor, affection, and anger. She witnessed striking changes, both cultural and economic, and she recorded the stories of the women. Writing Women's Worlds is Abu-Lughod's telling of those stories; it is also about what happens in bringing the stories to others.[via]
As the new teller of these tales Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography. She explores how the telling of these stories challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the lives of others and the way feminist theory appropriates Third World women. Writing Women's Worlds is thus at once a vivid set of stories and a study in the politics of representation.More editions of Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories:
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Yanomamoby Napoleon A. ChagnonISBN 0155053272 (0-15-505327-2)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Yanomamo'Book summary:Part of the highly respected "Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology" series, this ethnography describes the culture and lives of the Yanomamo of South America. [via]
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Yanomamo, the Fierce Peopleby Napoleon A. ChagnonISBN 0030328195 (0-03-032819-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Yanomamo: The Fierce People'Book summary:Description: xiv, 142 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Subjects: Yanomamo Indians. Series: Case studies in cultural anthropology. [via]
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