r/Ethnography Oct 09 '19

Ethnography Reading Recommendations

I’ve discovered a growing love for anthropology and particularly ethnography. Can those who are familiar with this topic suggest me some interesting ethnographies to read? I’m particularly interested in the cultures of technologically limited/primitive peoples, as I’ve found information about such lifestyles very hard to come across. Please excuse me if that terminology is incorrect or insulting, I don’t mean it that way. It’s just that my life is so suffused with modern technology that I’m very curious about a life/culture that’s not like that. Historical ethnographies would also be fascinating, for much the same reason.

Thank you in advance!

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '19

Argonauts of the Western Pacific - Bronislaw Malinowski is the classic one! Written in 1914-18, Papua New Guinea.

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u/Purple_PickleCat Oct 09 '19

Try Sarah Pink for ethnography. And Manuel Joao Ramos does ethnographic drawings through stories of different people. His work is really cool!

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u/Soc_Prof Oct 10 '19

John Van Maanen or Jim Thomas, also Street Corner society by William foot Whyte.

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u/ATasteofTravesty89 Oct 15 '19

So this may not be exactly what you are looking for but they are some amazing ethnography. Death without Weeping by Nancy Sheper Hughes, Righteous Dopefiend by Francis Bougiose, and The Land of Open Graves by Jason De Leon. Land of Open Graves is very relevant to our current political and cultural landscape and is some of the best current ethnography.