[Linganth] UPDATED Ling anth ethnography recommendations for entry-level UG courses

[Susanne Unger]

Dear all,

Many thanks to those of you who shared your suggestions, which I in
turn compiled and shared with the list. I've since received a couple
more suggestions and fixed a misspelling. Here is the updated list:

Basso, Keith. 1996. Wisdom Sits in Places.

Das, Sonia. 2016. Linguistic Rivalries: Tamil Migrants and
Anglo-Franco Conflicts.

Everett, Dan. 2009. Don’t Sleep: There are Snakes: Life and Language
in the Amazonian Jungle.

García Sánchez, I. M. 2014. Language and Muslim Immigrant Childhoods:
The Politics of Belonging.

Hill, Jane H. 2008. The Everyday Language of White Racism.

Hoffmann-Dilloway, Erika. 2016. Signing and Belonging in Nepal.

LaDousa, Chaise. 2011. House Signs and Collegiate Fun: Sex, Race, and
Faith in a College Town.

Okrent, Arika. 2009. In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto rock
stars, Klingon poets, Loglan lovers, and the mad dreamers who tried to
build a perfect language.

Roth Gordon, Jennifer. 2017 (pub date: January 3, 2017). Race and the
Brazilian Body: Blackness, Whiteness, and Everyday Language in Rio de
Janeiro.

Ryang, Sonia. 1997. North Koreans in Japan: Language, Ideology, and Identity.

Smith, Andrea L., and Anna Eisenstein. 2016. Rebuilding Shattered
Worlds: Creating Community by Voicing the Past.

Wirtz, Kristina. 2014. Performing Afro-Cuba: Image, Voice, Spectacle
in the Making of Race and History.


On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 3:22 PM, Susanne Unger <susanne.unger at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm looking for suggestions for recently published, ling anth-oriented
> ethnographies to teach in lower-level undergraduate-level courses. For
> many students, this will be their first ethnography, and most of them
> have no previous training in sociolinguistics.
>
> At the end of this message are some of the monographs I've taught in
> past semesters; all lead to some very good classroom conversations and
> student papers, and I'd be happy to teach them again, but I am also
> interested in reading and assigning a new monograph. I took a look at
> the list of ethnographies on language socialization that was curated
> last year but am interested in other topics as well.
>
> If you have any recommendations for books you've found engaging and
> well suited for undergraduate students who are just beginning to learn
> about (linguistic) anthropology, please e-mail them to me. I'm happy
> to compile a list later to share with this listserv and/or the SLA
> blog.
>
> Thanks in advance, Susanne
>
>
> Some of the monographs I've taught in recent years:
> Jean Briggs, Never in Anger
> Robin Conley, Confronting the Death Penalty
> Ilana Gershon, The Breakup 2.0
> Graham Jones, Trade of the Tricks
> Norma Mendoza-Denton, Homegirls
>
> Susanne Unger, Ph.D.
> Adjunct Professorial Lecturer
> Department of Anthropology
> The American University
> 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
> Washington DC 20016-8003