Undergraduate Module Descriptor

ANT2002: Ethnography Now

This module descriptor refers to the 2023/4 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Boellstorff, T. (2008). Coming of age in Second Life: An anthropologist explores the virtually human: Princeton Univ Pr.
Bourgois, P. I. (2003). In search of respect: Selling crack in El Barrio: Cambridge Univ Pr.
Clifford, J., & Marcus, G. E. (1986). Writing culture: The poetics and politics of ethnography: Univ of California Pr.
Clough, P. T. (1998). The End (s) of Ethnography: From Realism to Social Criticism. 2nd edn. New York: Peter Lang.
Fonarow, W. (2006). Empire of Dirt: The Aesthetics and Rituals of British Indie Music (Middletown, CT, Wesleyan University Press).
Faubion, J. D., & Marcus, G. E. (2009). Fieldwork is not what it used to be: learning anthropology's method in a time of transition: Cornell University Press.
Kulick, D. (1998). Travesti: sex, gender, and culture among Brazilian transgendered prostitutes: University of Chicago Press.
Rabinow, P., Marcus, G. E., Faubion, J. D., & Rees, T. (2008). Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary: Duke University Press.