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ANTH 4 (Struthers): Ethnography List

The following lists of books are cultural case studies and ethnographies available through the Butte College Library. Click on the icon at left for more information about each title from the library's catalog.

Books in the Library

Title Author
A bagful of locusts and the baboon woman : constructions of gender, change, and continuity in Botswana David N Suggs
A Guadalcanal society; the Kaoka speakers. Herbert Ian Hogbin
A mountain village in Nepal John Thayer Hitchcock
A village in Malta Jeremy Boissevain
Abkhasians : the long-living people of the Caucasus Sula Benet
Aleuts, survivors of the Bering Land Bridge William S Laughlin
Appalachian Valley George L Hicks
Becoming a woman in rural Black culture Molly Crocker Dougherty
Being a Palauan H G Barnett
Benabarre : the modernization of a Spanish village Richard A Barrett
Bunyoro, an African kingdom John Beattie
Burgbach: urbanization and identity in a German village, George Spindler
Challenging gender norms : five genders among Bugis in Indonesia Sharyn Graham Davies
Changing Japan Edward Norbeck
Chicano prisoners : the key to San Quentin R Theodore Davidson
China's urban villagers : life in a Beijing commune Norman A Chance
Daytop Village : a therapeutic community. Barry Sugarman
Dreamers with power : the Menominee George Spindler; Louise S Spindler
Fields on the hoof; nexus of Tibetan nomadic pastoralism, Robert B Ekvall
Fishermen of South Thailand : the Malay villagers Thomas M Fraser
Globalization and change in fifteen cultures : born in one world, living in another George Spindler; Janice E Stockard
Gopalpur : a south Indian village Alan R Beals
Grand Valley Dani : peaceful warriors Karl G Heider
Hano, a Tewa Indian community in Arizona Edward P Dozier
Hawaiian fishermen Edward W Glazier
Himalayan herders Naomi Hawes Bishop
Kafr el-Elow: an Egyptian village in transition Hani Fakhouri
Katun : a twenty-year journey with the Maya Cindy L Hull
Kippel: a changing village in the Alps. John Friedl
Knowing the Gururumba, Philip Newman
Life in a Muslim Uzbek village : cotton farming after Communism Russell G Zanca
Life in Riverfront : a middle-western town seen through Japanese eyes Mariko Fujita; Toshiyuki Sano
Life under the tropical canopy : tradition and change among the Yucatec Maya Ellen R Kintz
Lifelines : Black families in Chicago Joyce Aschenbrenner
Mexican-Americans of south Texas [Hidalgo Project on Differential Culture Change and Mental Health] William Madsen
Modern Blackfeet : Montanans on a reservation Malcolm McFee
Morne-Paysan, peasant village in Martinique Michael M Horowitz
Mules and Men Zora Neale Hurston
On the street where I lived Melvin D Williams
Papago woman Ruth Underhill
Royal blue : the culture of construction workers Herbert A Applebaum
Samoan village : then and now Lowell D Holmes; Ellen Rhoads Holmes
Sanapia, Comanche medicine woman, David E Jones
Scottish crofters : a historical ethnography of a Celtic village Susan Parman
Shadowed lives : undocumented immigrants in American society Leo R Chavez
Tell My Horse : Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica Zora Neale Hurston
TepoztlaÌ Oscar Lewis
The Balinese John Stephen Lansing
The Bolivian Aymara Hans C Buechler; Judith-Maria Buechler
The Canela : kinship, ritual, and sex in an Amazonian tribe William H Crocker; Jean Crocker
The Cheyennes : Indians of the Great Plains E Adamson Hoebel
The Dobe Ju/'hoansi Richard B Lee
The Dobe!Kung Richard B Lee
The Eskimo of North Alaska Norman A Chance
The hoghead : an industrial ethnology of the locomotive engineer Frederick C Gamst
The Huron farmers of the North, Bruce G Trigger
The Hutterites in North America John A Hostetler; Gertrude Enders Huntington
The Igbo of southeast Nigeria Victor C Uchendu
The Iñupiat and Arctic Alaska : an ethnography of development Norman A Chance
The Isthmus Zapotecs : a matrifocal culture of Mexico Beverly Chiñas
The Isthmus Zapotecs : women's roles in cultural context Beverly Chiñas
The Kanuri of Bornu. Ronald Cohen
The Kapauku Papuans of West New Guinea Leopold J Pospisil
The Konyak Nagas : an Indian frontier tribe Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf
The Lugbara of Uganda. John Middleton
The Magars of Banyan Hill John Thayer Hitchcock
The Mapuche Indians of Chile Louis C Faron
The Mardu aborigines : living the dream in Australia's desert Robert Tonkinson
The Mbuti pygmies : change and adaptation Colin M Turnbull
The peasants of central Russia, Stephen Porter Dunn; Ethel Dunn
The Pueblo Indians of North America Edward P Dozier
The Qemant; a pagan-Hebraic peasantry of Ethiopia, Frederick C Gamst
The Rashaayda Bedouin : Arab pastoralists of eastern Sudan William Charles Young
The Sambia : ritual, sexuality, and change in Papua New Guinea Gilbert H Herdt
The Semai : a nonviolent people of Malaya Robert Knox Dentan
The Swazi : a South African kingdom. Hilda Kuper
The Tausug: violence and law in a Philippine Moslem society, Thomas M Kiefer
The Tiwi of North Australia C W M Hart; Arnold R Pilling
The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea Annette B Weiner
The two worlds of the Washo : an Indian tribe of California and Nevada James F Downs
The urban poor of Puerto Rico: a study in development and inequality. Helen Icken Safa
The walls of Acre; intergroup relations and urban development in Israel. Morton Rubin
The winds of Ixtepeji; world view and society in a Zapotec town. Michael Kearney
The Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria, William Russell Bascom
The Zinacantecos of Mexico; a modern Maya way of life Evon Z Vogt
Ulithi; a Micronesian design for living, William Armand Lessa
Vasilika : a village in modern Greece Ernestine Friedl
Watch and pray : a portrait of Fante village life in transition Nancy Lundgren
Yanomamo Napoleon A Chagnon
Pedro Martinez: a Mexican peasant and his family Oscar Lewis
Guided by the spirits: the meanings of life, death, and youth suicide in an Ojibwa community Seth Allard
Con respeto: bridging the distances between culturally diverse families and schools: an ethnographic portrait Guadalupe Valdes
Modern Indian kingship: tradition, legitimacy & power in Rajasthan Marzia Balzani
Healing cultures: art and religion as curative practices in the Caribbean and its diaspora Margarite Olmos

 

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Ebooks Available through the Library

Title Author
Angels' town: chero ways, gang life, and rhetorics of the everyday Ralph Cintron
Argonauts of the western pacific: an account of native enterprise and adventure in the archipelagoes of melanesian new guinea Bronislaw Malinowski
Blessing for a long time: the sacred pole of the omaha tribe Robin Ridington
Boundaries and passages: rule and ritual in yup'ik eskimo oral tradition Ann Fienup-Riordan
Crafting selves: power, gender, and discourses of identity in a japanese workplace Dorinne K Kondo
Do glaciers listen?: local knowledge, colonial encounters, and social imagination Julie Cruikshank,
Gifts, favors, and banquets: the art of social relationships in china Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang
Guided by the spirits: the meanings of life, death, and youth suicide in an ojibwa community Seth Allard
Hanging without a rope: narrative experience in colonial and postcolonial karoland Mary Margaret Steedly
Lijiang Stories: Shamans, taxi drivers, and runaway brides in reform-era China Emily Chao
Loon: memory, meaning, and reality in a northern dene community Henry S Sharp
Mules and Men Zora Neale Hurston
Nisa: the life and words of a !kung woman Marjorie Shostak
No aging in india: alzheimer's, the bad family, and other modern things Lawrence Cohen
Notes on love in a tamil family Margaret Trawick
Poetics of military occupation: mzeina allegories of bedouin identity under israeli and egyptian rule Smadar Lavie
Shelter blues: sanity and selfhood among the homeless Robert R Desjarlais
Storytellers, saints, and scoundrels: folk narrative in hindu religious teaching Kirin Narayan
Taming the wind of desire: psychology, medicine, and aesthetics in malay shamanistic performance Carol Laderman
Taste of blood: spirit possession in brazilian candomble Jim Wafer
Tell My Horse : Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica Zora Neale Hurston

 

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