Good Ethnography
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
by:
Anne Fadiman
4.20 avg rating β 87,597 ratings 
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Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing
by:
Michael Taussig
4.16 avg rating β 302 ratings 8. 
All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community
by:
Carol B. Stack
3.84 avg rating β 462 ratings 
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Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society
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Lila Abu-Lughod
3.99 avg rating β 1,445 ratings 13. 
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
by:
Seth Holmes
4.28 avg rating β 2,333 ratings 
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The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail
by:
Jason De LeΓ³n
4.56 avg rating β 2,092 ratings 16. 
Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club
by:
Anne Allison
3.69 avg rating β 270 ratings 17. 
The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
by:
Michael Taussig
3.96 avg rating β 477 ratings 
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Lost in Transition: Ethnographies of Everyday Life after Communism 4.17 avg rating β 133 ratings
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Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent
by:
Meredith Small
4.18 avg rating β 2,049 ratings 
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Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls
by:
Rachel Simmons
3.84 avg rating β 5,208 ratings 
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American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto
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Sudhir Venkatesh
3.77 avg rating β 350 ratings 
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The Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey into the Secret Societies of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis, and Magic
by:
Wade Davis
3.92 avg rating β 5,278 ratings 32. 
Crafting Selves: Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace
by:
Dorinne K. Kondo
3.92 avg rating β 115 ratings 
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Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject
by:
Saba Mahmood
4.16 avg rating β 1,006 ratings 35. 
The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti (NWSA / UIP First Book Prize)
by:
Erin L. Durban
4.90 avg rating β 10 ratings 37. 
What's Love Got to Do with It?: Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic
by:
Denise Brennan
3.91 avg rating β 203 ratings 
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Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn
by:
Ayala Fader
3.85 avg rating β 228 ratings 
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right 4.12 avg rating β 17,561 ratings
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Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind
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Margalit Fox
4.02 avg rating β 526 ratings 47. 
The Classroom and the Cell: Conversations on Black Life in America
by:
Mumia Abu-Jamal
4.48 avg rating β 95 ratings 48. 
Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor
by:
Sudhir Venkatesh
3.73 avg rating β 827 ratings 48. 
A Poison Stronger than Love: The Destruction of an Ojibwa Community 4.42 avg rating β 65 ratings
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Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India
by:
Veena Das
4.03 avg rating β 29 ratings 51. 
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation
by:
Margaret Mead
3.55 avg rating β 3,149 ratings 52. 
Dreaming of a Mail-Order Husband: Russian-American Internet Romance
by:
Ericka Johnson
3.87 avg rating β 31 ratings 53. 
Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia
by:
David Tuller
3.94 avg rating β 32 ratings 
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The Tree and the Canoe: History and Ethnogeography of Tanna (South Sea Book) 4.60 avg rating β 5 ratings
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The Innocent Anthropologist : Notes from a Mud Hut
by:
Nigel Barley
4.05 avg rating β 3,460 ratings 
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Polluted Promises: Environmental Racism and the Search for Justice in a Southern Town
by:
Melissa Checker
3.92 avg rating β 138 ratings 60. 
Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture
by:
Aaron A. Fox
3.68 avg rating β 98 ratings 
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Mythbusting the Cult of Confucius: What the Chinese Really Are, How to Understand Them and Why We Need to
by:
Wayne Deeker
4.40 avg rating β 10 ratings 60. 
Where the World Ended: Re-Unification and Identity in the German Borderland
by:
Daphne Berdahl
3.79 avg rating β 90 ratings 60. 
AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame
by:
Paul Farmer
4.21 avg rating β 854 ratings 60. 
The Lost World of Ladakh: Photographic journeys through Indian Himalaya 1931-1934 (AHP:31) 4.46 avg rating β 24 ratings
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Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes
by:
Don Kulick
4.01 avg rating β 669 ratings 60. 
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The Seed and the Soil: Gender and Cosmology in Turkish Village Society
by:
Carol Delaney
4.11 avg rating β 57 ratings 60. 
The Poetics of Military Occupation: Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity Under Israeli and Egyptian Rule
by:
Smadar Lavie
3.78 avg rating β 41 ratings 60. 
Art as Politics: Re-crafting Identities, Tourism, and Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia 4.14 avg rating β 28 ratings
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FΓΌr fΓΌnfzig Pfennig um die Welt. Die Hagenbeckschen VΓΆlkerschauen 3.33 avg rating β 3 ratings
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Soul Hunters: Hunting, Animism, and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs
by:
Rane Willerslev
4.28 avg rating β 138 ratings 60. 
Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
by:
Isabel Fonseca
3.94 avg rating β 3,973 ratings 
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Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France 4.34 avg rating β 152 ratings
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Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity
by:
Mitchell Duneier
3.85 avg rating β 342 ratings 60. 
Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self
by:
Elly Teman
3.73 avg rating β 37 ratings 
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Portraits of "The Whiteman": Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols Among the Western Apache
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Keith H. Basso
3.63 avg rating β 313 ratings 85. 
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx 4.26 avg rating β 13,311 ratings
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Getting Wrecked: Women, Incarceration, and the American Opioid Crisis
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Kimberly Sue
4.22 avg rating β 87 ratings 85. 
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Life is Hard: Machismo, Danger, and the Intimacy of Power in Nicaragua 3.92 avg rating β 123 ratings
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When I Wear My Alligator Boots: Narco-Culture in the US-Mexico Borderlands 4.25 avg rating β 226 ratings
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The Online World of Surrogacy (Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives Book 35)
by:
Zsuzsa Berend
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 95. 
Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category
by:
David Valentine
3.98 avg rating β 291 ratings 
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Dialogues with the Dead: The Discussion of Mortality among the Sora of Eastern India
by:
Piers Vitebsky
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 7 ratings 
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by:
Isabel Wilkerson
4.48 avg rating β 113,281 ratings