[Linganth] Ethnographies

[Inge Kral]

You might also be interested in this one from Australia as well:


Kral, I. (2012) Talk, Text and Technology: Literacy and Social Practice in a Remote Indigenous Community. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters.
Good luck!


Dr Inge Kral
Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research,  Rm 2140 | Copland Building 24 | Kingsley Place
The Australian National University, Acton ACT  2601 | T. +61-2-61250481

School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics /ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language
Rm W2.04 Baldessin Precinct, Building 110 | The Australian National University, Acton ACT  2601 | T: +61-2-61258216

E:inge.kral at anu.edu.au<mailto:inge.kral at anu.edu.au> | M. 0438526827





From: Linganth [mailto:linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org] On Behalf Of Netta Avineri
Sent: Tuesday, 18 June 2019 6:07 AM
To: LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: [Linganth] Ethnographies

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<mailto: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


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


Graduate students
Basso, Keith. Wisdom Sits in Places
Debenport. Fixing the Books

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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. <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/talking-like-children-9780190876982?cc=us&lang=en&> Oxford University Press<https://global.oup.com/academic/product/talking-like-children-9780190876982?cc=us&lang=en&>

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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