<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi everyone,</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Here’s the link (you don’t need a google account to access or add to it by the way):</div><div><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y3847ejz">https://tinyurl.com/y3847ejz</a></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Netta</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 11:27 AM Elise Berman <<a href="mailto:eberman@uncc.edu">eberman@uncc.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear all, <div><br></div><div>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!</div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks, </div><div><br></div><div>Elise</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Ethnographies
that have been used with undergraduates and worked well</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Mendoza-Denton,
Norma. <i>Homegirls </i>(this was suggested by almost everyone)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Basso, Keith. <i>Wisdom
Sits in Places</i> (also offered Lonesome Dove and Portraits of a White Man)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Fader, Ayala. <i>Mitzvah
Girls</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Davis, Jenny. </span><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif"> <i>Talking Indian: Identity
and Language Revitalization in the Chickasaw Renaissance </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">García Sánchez,
Inmaculada <i>Language and Muslim Immigrant Childhoods </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Blackledge &
Creese's <i>Multilingualism </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">LaDousa, Chaise. <i>House Signs and Collegiate Fun</i></span><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Gilmore, Perry. <i>Kisisi</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Fadiman, Anne <i>The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down </i>(Not
linguistic anthropology Specifically, but a good story of intercommunication
and miscommunication, and the importance of pragmatics)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Bauer, Laurie and
Peter Trudgill <i>Language Myths </i>(not an
ethnography, but a good undergraduate friendly text!)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Dan
Everett "Don't sleep, there are snakes" </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">Paugh, Amy L. (2013). <i>Playing with
Languages: Children and Change in a Caribbean Village. </i>New York:
Berghahn Books.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Tetreault, Chantal. (2015). <i>Transcultural
Teens: Performing Youth Identities in French Cités</i>. Malden, MA: Wiley
Blackwell. </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Non-linguistic ethnographies
used (about communication writ large)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Amy
Stambach's <i>Lessons from Mount Kilimanjaro</i> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Bourgois
and Schonberg's <i>Righteous Dopefiend</i></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Ethnographies
or books suggested (but have not yet been class tested!)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Shankar, Salini. <i>Beeline</i>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Rhymes, Betsy. <i>Conversational
Borderlands</i></span><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif"><br>
McIntish, Janet first book, which I believe is <i>The Edge of Islam: Power,
Personhood, and Ethnoreligious Boundaries on the Kenya Coast</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Allen, Catherine
Allen. <i>Foxboy</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Black, Steven. </span><i><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Speech and Song At the Margins of
Global Health: Zulu Tradition, HIV Stigma, and AIDS Activism in South Africa</span></i><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Majors, Yolanda. <i>Shoptalk
</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Sarroub <i>All
American Yemeni Girls</i> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">Rosa, Jonathan. (2019).<i> Looking like a
Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of
Latinidad </i>(Oxf Studies in Anthropology of Language) OUP.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">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!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Berman, Elise. <i>Talking
Like Children: Language and the Production of Age in the Marshall Islands</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Graduate
students</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Basso, Keith.
Wisdom Sits in Places</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Debenport. <i>Fixing
the Books</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif"> </span></p><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_-3921337844731580391gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">--<div>Elise Berman<br><div>Assistant Professor</div><div>Department of Anthropology</div><div>UNC Charlotte</div><div><a href="https://clas-pages.uncc.edu/elise-berman/" target="_blank">https://clas-pages.uncc.edu/elise-berman/</a></div><div><br></div></div><div><i><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/talking-like-children-9780190876982?cc=us&lang=en&" target="_blank">Talking Like Children: Language and the Production of Age in the Marshall Islands. </a></i><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/talking-like-children-9780190876982?cc=us&lang=en&" target="_blank">Oxford University Press</a><i><br></i></div><div><br></div><div>Force Signs: Ideologies of Corporal Discipline in Academia and the Marshall Islands</div><div><a href="https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jola.12175" target="_blank">https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jola.12175</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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