To follow up the previous post with my own specific interest-area, what are people's favorite ethnographies of Chinese cultures?

(I'm currently reading Susan Brownell's Beijing's Games: What the Olympics Mean to China for a class. It's very readable, and interesting even to someone who is more than tired of hearing, reading, and talking about the ( Read more... )

I've been reading about the Roma lately, and I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations for good ethnographies about the Roma and other modern nomadic cultures like the Irish Travellers. I'm particularly interested in the relationship between itinerant communities and the state societies they come in contact with. Thanks in advance for ( Read more... )

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because i'm making my amazon.com christmas wishlist:

what's your favorite ethnography?
or just anthropologically related book?
and if you want to, why?

mine's Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression by Steven Feld.

Hello everyone. I'm a junior Anth student at Penn State University. I'm setting up my courses for the spring and I'm kind of stuck bewteen two courses. I have to take three credits each in Archaeology, Cultural Anth, and Biological Anth. For the Cultural part, I settled on one of two, but I don't know which would be better for me. My area of ( Read more... )

This is the last piece of writing for a portfoilo I did for my Ethnography class. I am very proud of it, though as usual for my writing style, it is better spoken aloud than read. I know most people won't care to read it, but I am proud with my expression of my insecurities and how I look at ethnographies. It isn't long at all, so I hope it's an ( Read more... )

I just finished Population:485 by Michael Perry, and although it is not entirely anthropological in nature it does have elements of a smart and well written ethnography (albeit a little subjective). If anyone is doing research on rural cultures and is in need of a little qualitative/anecdotal/supplemental material, this would do nicely. It hooked ( Read more... )

Next year I plan to write something on the organisation of a local environmental festival using data gained from participant observation, focus group/interviews maybe and if I’m strapped a bit of content analysis from the relative website and forum. I was hoping some of you could recommend me some books or journal articles on the organisation of ( Read more... )

Hello there,

I'm a student in anthropology and I want to develop my knowledge in some subjects. I have a few questions here and I'm looking forward to get a reply from someone who can give me some tips / answers. I hope someone can help me here on the community : )
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