Into The Heart: One Man's Pursuit of Love and Knowledge Among the Yanomami17 reviews Kenneth Good, David Chanoff Prentice Hall, 1997 Into the Heart and Into My Heart + excellent read! + A Great Story With Many Different Layers! + Moving piece of work + A Bible-based love             Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande5 reviews E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Eva Gillies Oxford University Press, USA, 1976 African Witchcraft + Great anthropological work + A fine work of Anthropology + A controversial classic! + Evans-Pritchard comes through again             The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction2 reviews Emily Martin Beacon Press, 2001 Very intriguing book + provocative and worthwhile I was very impressed with this book. It covers the anthropological view of reproduction, including historical perspective, menses, pregnancy, motherhood, and menopause. I recommend it for anyone interested in anthropology, women studies and especially for anyone pregnant.             Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Centennial Book)11 reviews Nancy Scheper-Hughes University of California Press, 1993 Classic Modern Ethnography + a gripping ethnography Scheper-Hughes not only crafts a thorough, complex ethnography, but she takes a risk by putting a piece of herself into it as well. Here is the introduction I wrote for a term paper about this book: Anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes covers rough territory in Death Without Weeping, an ...             In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences)25 reviews Philippe Bourgois Cambridge University Press, 2002 The ugly truth + Entertaining, interesting, and educational + Life Among Crack Dealers in the 80's + Good and Enlightening Read + Well Written Account of Urban Life.             Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation (Perennial Classics)18 reviews Margaret Mead Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2001 The master at work Dr. Meade truly was one of the most well-known American Anthropologists in the 20th Century. Her appeal to the common person through her writings in popular magazines sparked the interest on Anthropological studies for many people from all walks of life. This book was her first masterpiece. This ...             The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People4 reviews E. E. Evans-Pritchard Oxford University Press, 1969 Nuerific! + An Enduring Classic + A turning point is Social Anthropology This book is one of the classics of ethnography - indeed, one of the works which defines what ethnography and anthropology are. The Nuer is an account of a group of pastoralists living in the Sudan as Evans-Pritchard knew them when he did field work in er... uh... the late 30s early 40s. The first ...             Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America4 reviews Michael Taussig University of N. Carolina Press, 1983 An excellent and creative application of theory + A misunderstood book + Capitalist deconstruction anyone? This is doubtless Taussig's clearest and most straightforward book -- if you think the text here is convoluted, try "The Nervous System" or "The Magic of the State" on for size. Both of these works, as with all of Taussig, are outstanding in their own way, but for the beginning reader in ...             Yanomamo (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)12 reviews Napoleon A. Chagnon Harcourt Brace, 1996 a different culture [in danger] + cheaper than at the college book store + Informative but controversial this book is a good introduction to the Yanomamo people of the Amazon rainforest, in Venezuela & Brazil. There's so much literature on these people; this book really is just an introduction. One thing Chagnon communicates very well in it is how terribly tragic he thinks what's happening to them ...             Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society,9 reviews Lila Abu-Lughod University of California Press, 2000 A Tool for Understanding + The Meaning of the Craft of Ethnography + Tremendous Insight + Evocative ethnography + a good read             Pigs for the Ancestors : Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People1 review Roy A. Rappaport Waveland Pr Inc, 2000 Excellent Book May well be the best book I've ever read about a pig related monetary system.             The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual Victor Turner Cornell University Press, 1970             Argonauts of the Western Pacific2 reviews Bronislaw Malinowski Waveland Press, 1984 An essential work in this history of anthropology + A classic Don't be misled by the occasional discouraged student, this is an important work that must be read by someone seeking to understand the nature and history of the social sciences.             Women of Value, Men of Renown: New Perspectives in Trobriand Exchange (Texas Press Sourcebooks in ... Annette Weiner Univ of Texas Pr, 1983 This study of women, men, and exchanges of wealth in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea, makes an interesting comparison with the work of pioneer ethnographer Bronislaw Malinowski, who conducted his seminal research there between 1915 and 1918. While Malinowski and others have focused on men, dismissing "women's work" as unimportant, Weiner shows that women play a vital role in Trobriand ...             Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family2 reviews Jean L. Briggs Harvard University Press, 2006 Touching first hand account + You try living on the edge of survival in an alien culture.. Never In Anger was an assigned book for my first year anthropology class at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Jean Briggs' alma mater. This ethnography opened my eyes to the wonderful field of cultural anthropology. Jean's honesty concerning her observations of her adopted family made the ...             Tristes Tropiques10 reviews Claude Levi-Strauss Penguin (Non-Classics), 1992 Idea overload and totally interesting + Into the remote parts of South America + A journey down the savage river of mind and memory + Grounding Levi-Strauss's Structuralism + Parrot Flambee             Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline (Suny Series in Anthropology of Work)4 reviews Aihwa Ong State University of New York Press, 1987 Ong's work is necessary in any discussion of globalization. The American Dream. An ideal, the golden land, something to strive for, capitalism. For most immigrants of the early twentieth century, the "American" way of life was sought after as a better way than that found in the old country. Imagine the dilemma posed to you if that same type of ...             Political Systems of Highland Burma: A Study of Kachin Social Structure (London School of Economics ... E. R. Leach Berg Publishers, 1973             Neighborhood Tokyo2 reviews Theodore Bestor Stanford University Press, 1990 A must for anyone interested in downtown Tokyo + Hundreds of subjects, one neighborhood Neighborhood Tokyo is one of only a handful of books in English that offers a realistic and insightful portrait of the lives of ordinary people in this vibrant global metropolis. It provides an intimate and well-grounded account of the daily life of a particular neighborhood located near the heart ...             Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman22 reviews Marjorie Shostak Harvard University Press, 2000 Dense, informitive, sad, and often moving + Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman. + "Women are strong; women are important..." + Very inteA very interesting book on the lives of !Kung Sun (Bush People).... + What was Nisa all about, and did I like it?