Anthropology : selected ethnographies

Compiled by Professor Ade Peace, Discipline of Anthropology, University of Adelaide and made available for ANTH 1102 (2008)

Links from individual titles into the library catalogue are being added progressively

Abu-Lughod, Lila. 1986. Veiled sentiments: honour and poetry in a Bedouin society. Berkeley: University of California. 

Abu-Lughod, Lila. 1993. Writing women’s worlds: Bedouin stories. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Adams, Vincanne. 1996. Tigers of the snow and other virtual Sherpas : an ethnography of Himalayan encounters. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Amit Talai, Vered. 1989. Armenians in London: the management of social boundaries. Manchester: Manchester University Press. [the library does not have this book]

Bauman, Gerd. 1996. Contesting culture: discourses of identity in multiethnic London. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Beckett, Jeremy. 1987. Torres Strait Islanders: custom and colonialism. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.

Behar, Ruth. 1993. Translated woman: crossing the border with Esperanza's story. Boston: Beacon Press.

Bell, Diane. 1993. Daughters of the Dreaming. St. Leonards: NSW: Allen & Unwin.

Bell, Diane. 1998. Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin: a world that is, was and will be. Melbourne: Spinifex.

Berndt, Catherine H. 1983. The Aboriginal Australians: the first pioneers. Carlton, Vic: Pitman.

Bottomley, Gillian. 1979. After the Odyssey: a study of Greek Australians. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press.

Bourgois, Phillipe. 1995. In search of respect: selling crack in El Barrio. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. BSL holds 2nd ed 2003

Carsten, Janet. 1997. The heat of the hearth: the process of kinship in a Malay fishing community. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Cavan, Sherri. 1966. Liquor license: an ethnography of bar behavior. Chicago: Aldine Pub. Co.

Chow, Rey. 1995. Primitive passions: visuality, sexuality, ethnography in contemporary Chinese cinema. New York: Columbia University Press.

Chun, Kyung-soo. 1984. Reciprocity and Korean society: an ethnography of Hasami. Seoul: Seoul National University Press.

Cohen, Anthony P. 1987. Whalsay: symbol, segment and boundary in a Shetland island community. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Cole, Jeffrey. 1997. The new racism in Europe: a Sicilian ethnography. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Conklin, Beth. 2001. Consuming grief: compassionate cannibalism in an Amazonian society. Texas: University of Texas Press.

Cowlishaw, Gillian. 1999. Rednecks, eggheads and blackfellas: a study of racial power and intimacy in Australia. St. Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin. [Electronic version here]

Cowlishaw, Gillian. 1988. Black, white or brindle: race in rural Australia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

De Graff, M. 1970. Totemism in the Australian Desert of Australia. [Perth]: Department of Anthropology, University of W.A. [the library does not have this book]

Desjarlais, Robert. 1992. Body and emotion: the aesthetics of illness and healing in the Nepal Himalayas. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Desjarlais, R. 2003. Sensory biographies: lives and deaths among Nepal’s Yolmo Buddhists. California: University of California Press.

Douglas, Mary. 1966. Purity and danger: an analysis of the concepts of pollution and taboo. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Douglas, Mary. 1970. Natural Symbols: explorations in cosmology. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. [1973 2nd ed here]

Eipper, Chris. 1986. The ruling trinity: a community study of church, state and business in Ireland. Aldershot: Gower.

Estroff, Sue E. 1981. Making it crazy: an ethnography of psychiatric clients in an American community. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Farmer, Bonnie Cashin. 1996. A nursing home and its organizational climate: an ethnography. Westport, Conn.: Auburn House.

Favret-Saada, Jeanne. 1980. Deadly words: witchcraft in the Bocage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Fernandez, James W. 1982. Bwiti: an ethnography of the religious imagination in Africa. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press.

Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock. 1969. Guests of the sheik: an ethnography of an Iraqi village. Garden City, N.Y: Anchor Books.

Freeman, Carla. 2000. High tech and high heels in the global economy. Duke: Duke University Press.

Geertz, Hildred. 1994. Images of power: Balinese paintings made for Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Gell, Alfred. 1975. Metamorphosis of the cassowaries: Umeda society, language and ritual. London: Athlone Press.

Gellner, David N. and Declan Quigley (editors) 1995. Contested hierarchies: a collaborative ethnography of caste among the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press.

Gewertz, Deborah B. 1983. Sepik River societies: a historical ethnography of the Chambri and their neighbours. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Gillespie, Marie. 1995. Television, ethnicity and cultural change. London: New York: Routledge.

Gilmore, David. 1986. The people of the plain: class and community in Lower Andalusia. New York: Columbia University Press.

Glasser, Irene. 1988. More than bread: ethnography of a soup kitchen. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.

Greenway, John. 1973, c1972. Down among the wild men: the narrative journal of fifteen years pursuing the old stone age Aborigines of Australia’s Western Desert. Richmond, Vic: Hutchinson of Australia.

Gunther, Erna. 1927. Klallam ethnography. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Gutschow, K. 2004. Being a Buddhist nun: the struggle for enlightenment in the Himalayas. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press.

Handelman, Don. 1990. Models and mirrors: towards anthropology of public events. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hannerz, Ulf. 1969. Soulside: inquiries into ghetto culture and community. New York: Columbia University Press.

Harrison, Simon. 1990. Stealing people’s names: history and politics in a Sepik River cosmology. Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press.

Hertz, Ellen. 1998. The trading crowd: an ethnography of the Shanghai stock market. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Herzfeld, Michael. 1985. The poetics of manhood: contest and identity in a Cretan mountain community. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Herzfeld, Michael. 1987. Anthropology through the looking glass. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Hester, M. 1992. Lewd women and wicked witches : a study of the dynamics of male domination. London, New York: Routledge.

Holston, James. 1989. The modernist city: an anthropological critique of Brasilia. Chicago: Chicago University Press

Jackson, Michael. 1998. Minima ethnographica: intersubjectivity and the anthropological project. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Kapferer, Bruce. 1988. Legends of people myths of state: violence, intolerance and political culture in Sri Lanka and Australia. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Karam, Azza. M. 1998. Women, Islamisms and the State: contemporary feminisms in Egypt. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Keen, Ian. 1994. Knowledge and secrecy in an Aboriginal religion. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Kenna, Margaret E. 2001. Greek Island Life: Fieldwork on Anafi. London: Routledge. [the library does not have this book]

Kisliuk, Michelle Robin. 1998. Seize the dance!: BaAka musical life and the ethnography of performance. New York; Oxford [England]: Oxford University Press.

Kuklick, D. 1998. Travesti: sex, gender and culture among Brazilian tansgendered prostitutes. Chicago: Chicago University Press.

Luhrmann, Tanya M. 1989. Persuasions of the witch's craft: ritual magic and witchcraft in present-day England. Oxford: B. Blackwell.

Lutkehaus, Nancy. 1995. Zaria's fire: engendered moments in Manam ethnography. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press.

Mackenzie, Maureen Anne. 1991. Androgynous objects: string bags and gender in central New Guinea. Chur, Switzerland; Philadelphia: Harwood Academic Publishers.

Malinowski, Bronislaw. 1961. Argonauts of the Western Pacific: an account of native enterprise and adventure in the archipelagos of Melanesia New Guinea. New York: Dutton.

Malkki, Liisa H. 1995. Purity and exile: violence, memory, and national cosmology among Hutu refugees in Tanzania. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Manderson, Lenore (ed) 1985. Australian ways: anthropological studies of an industrialised society. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.

Marcus, J. 1992. A world of difference: Islam and gender hierarchy in Turkey. St. Leonards NSW: Allen & Unwin.

McDonald, Kevin. 1999. Struggles for subjectivity: identity, action and youth experience. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

McDonald, Maryon. 1989. ‘We are not French’: language, culture and identity in Brittany. London: Routledge.

McKnight, David. 2002. From hunting to drinking: the devastating effects of alcohol on an Australian Aboriginal community. Routledge: London.

McRobbie, Angela. 1991. Feminism and youth culture: from 'Jackie' to 'Just Seventeen'. London: Macmillan Education Ltd.

Merlan, Francesca. 1998. Caging the rainbow: places, politics and Aborigines in a North Australian town. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Metcalfe, Andrew W. 1988. For freedom and dignity: historical agency and class structures in the coalfields of NSW. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.

Miller, Daniel. 1994. Modernity, an ethnographic approach : dualism and mass consumption in Trinidad. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Mills, M. 2003. Identity, ritual and state in Tibetan Buddhism: the foundations of authority in Gelupka monasticism. London: Routledge Curzon.

Mitchell, Jon P. 2001. Ambivalent Europeans: ritual, memory and the public sphere in Malta. London: Routledge.

Myers, Fred. 1986. Pintupi country, Pintupi self: sentiment, place, and politics among Western Desert Aborigines. Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.

Palsson, Gisli. 1991. Coastal economies, cultural accounts: human ccology and Icelandic discourse. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Parman, Susan. 1990. Scottish crofters: a historical ethnography of a Celtic village. Fort Worth: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.

Peace, Adrian. 1997. A time of reckoning: the politics of discourse in rural Ireland. St John’s: Institute of Social and Economic Research.

Peace, Adrian. 2001. A world of fine difference: the social architecture of a modern Irish village. Dublin: University College Dublin Press.

Poiner, Greta.1990. The good old rule: gender and other power relationships in a rural community. Sydney: Sydney University Press.

Rabinowitz, Dan. 1996. Overlooking Nazareth: the ethnography of exclusion in Galilee. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Rapport, Nigel. 1993. Diverse world-views in an English village. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [the library does not have this book]

Rose, Deborah. 1992. Dingo makes us human: life and land in an Aboriginal Australian culture. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.

Salzinger, Leslie. 2001. Gender Under Production: Making Subjects in Mexico’s Global Factories. Berkeley: University of California Press. [the library does not have this book]

Sansom, Basil. 1980. The camp at Wallaby Cross: Aboriginal fringe dwellers in Darwin. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.

Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. 1982. Saints, scholars and schizophrenics: mental illness in rural Ireland. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Shaw, Alison. 2000. Kinship and continuity: Pakistani families in Britain. London: Routledge. [the library does not have this book but it is held by the State Library of South Australia]

Shore, Chris. 2000. Building Europe: the cultural politics of European integration. London: Routledge.

Shostak, Marjorie. 1981. Nisa: the life and words of an !Kung woman. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Skoll, Geoffrey R. 1992. Walk the walk and talk the talk: an ethnography of a drug abuse treatment facility. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Spier, Leslie. 1930. Wishram ethnography. Seattle, Wash.: University of Washington Press.

Spradley, James P. 1970. You owe yourself a drunk: an ethnography of urban nomads. Boston: Little, Brown.

Stein, Michael Carl. 1990. The ethnography of an adult bookstore: private scenes, public places. Lewiston, N.Y.: E. Mellen Press.

Stoller, Paul. 1987. In sorcery’s shadow: a memoir of apprenticeship among the Songhay of Niger. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Stoller, Paul. 1989. The taste of ethnographic things: the senses in anthropology. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Stoller, Paul & C. Olkes. 1989. Fusion of the worlds: an ethnography of possession among the Songhay of Niger. Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press.

Strathern, Marilyn. 1981. Kinship at the sore: sn anthropology of Elmdon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Sturzenhofecker, Gabriele. 1998. Times enmeshed: gender, space, and history among the Duna of Papua New Guinea. Stanford California: Stanford University Press.

Taussig, Michael T. 1986. Shamanism, colonialism, and the wild man: a study in terror and healing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Telban, Brout. 1998. Dancing through time: a Sepik cosmology. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Thomas, Mandy. 1999. Dreams in the shadows: Vietnamese-Australian lives in transition. St Leonards, N.S.W: Allen & Unwin.

Trigger, David. 1992. Whitefella comin’ : Aboriginal responses to colonialism in northern Australia. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.

Tsing, Anna. 1993. In the realm of the diamond queen: marginality in an out-of-the-way place. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press.

Turner, Christena L. 1995. Japanese workers in protest: an ethnography of consciousness and experience. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Turner, Victor. 1967. The forest of symbols: aspects of Ndembu ritual. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press.

Wacquant, Loic. 2002. Body & soul : notebooks of an apprentice boxer. Berkeley:University of California Press.

Weiner, Annette B. 1988. The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Werbner, Pnina. 1990. The migration process: capital, gifts and offerings among British Pakistanis. New York: Berg.

Wikan, U. 1981. Life among the poor in Cairo. London: Tavistock.

Wild, R.A. 1974. Bradstow: a study of status, class and power in a small Australian town. Sydney: Angus &
Robertson.

Williams, Claire. 1981. Open cut: the working class in an Australian mining town. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.

Zonabend, Francoise. 1993. The nuclear peninsula. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.