[Linganth] Ethnographies

[Netta Avineri]

Hi everyone,

Thank you so much Elise for continuing to compile all of these ethnographies & sharing the list with the group! As we discussed I have put together a google doc that anyone can add to anytime, so we all have a running list of great ethnographies to choose from.

Here’s the link (you don’t need a google account to access or add to it by the way):
https://tinyurl.com/y3847ejz

Best,
Netta

> On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 11:27 AM Elise Berman <eberman at uncc.edu> wrote:
> Dear all, 
> 
> A couple people emailed with more, and asked to see the list in the body of the e-mail itself. Here it is. If anyone has any more suggestions, please send them to the listserve as a whole, I will not be updating this again!
> 
> Many thanks, 
> 
> Elise
> 
> Ethnographies that have been used with undergraduates and worked well
>  
> Mendoza-Denton, Norma. Homegirls (this was suggested by almost everyone)
> Basso, Keith. Wisdom Sits in Places (also offered Lonesome Dove and Portraits of a White Man)
> Fader, Ayala. Mitzvah Girls
> Davis, Jenny.  Talking Indian: Identity and Language Revitalization in the Chickasaw Renaissance
> García Sánchez, Inmaculada Language and Muslim Immigrant Childhoods
> Blackledge & Creese's Multilingualism
> LaDousa, Chaise. House Signs and Collegiate Fun
> Gilmore, Perry. Kisisi
> Fadiman, Anne The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (Not linguistic anthropology Specifically, but a good story of intercommunication and miscommunication, and the importance of pragmatics)
> Bauer, Laurie and Peter Trudgill Language Myths (not an ethnography, but a good undergraduate friendly text!)
> Dan Everett "Don't sleep, there are snakes" 
> Paugh, Amy L. (2013). Playing with Languages: Children and Change in a Caribbean Village. New York: Berghahn Books.
> Tetreault, Chantal. (2015). Transcultural Teens: Performing Youth Identities in French Cités. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell. 
>  
>  
> Non-linguistic ethnographies used (about communication writ large)
> Amy Stambach's Lessons from Mount Kilimanjaro
> Bourgois and Schonberg's Righteous Dopefiend
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>  
> Ethnographies or books suggested (but have not yet been class tested!)
> Shankar, Salini. Beeline
> Rhymes, Betsy. Conversational Borderlands
> McIntish, Janet first book, which I believe is The Edge of Islam: Power, Personhood, and Ethnoreligious Boundaries on the Kenya Coast
> Allen, Catherine Allen. Foxboy
> Black, Steven. Speech and Song At the Margins of Global Health: Zulu Tradition, HIV Stigma, and AIDS Activism in South Africa
> Majors, Yolanda. Shoptalk
> Sarroub All American Yemeni Girls
> Rosa, Jonathan. (2019). Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad (Oxf Studies in Anthropology of Language) OUP.
>  
> And in an act of self promotion I will add mine to this list which I wrote as a series of short ethnographic stories and specifically had undergraduates in mind when I was writing it!
>  
> Berman, Elise. Talking Like Children: Language and the Production of Age in the Marshall Islands
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>  
> Graduate students
> Basso, Keith. Wisdom Sits in Places
> Debenport. Fixing the Books
>  
> --
> Elise Berman
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Anthropology
> UNC Charlotte
> https://clas-pages.uncc.edu/elise-berman/
> 
> Talking Like Children: Language and the Production of Age in the Marshall Islands. Oxford University Press
> 
> Force Signs: Ideologies of Corporal Discipline in Academia and the Marshall Islands
> https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jola.12175
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