[Linganth] language-focused ethnographies for high school students

[Laura Ahearn]

Dear All,

As promised in my earlier email (see below), here is a spreadsheet
containing the list of suggestions
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wH-zBQub78bcIGvA-PgQrlhZQEezWjwg_zXWsDiiwRY/edit?usp=sharing>
that
LingAnth listserv members shared for language-related ethnographies that
would be accessible to high schoolers who are taking the new IB Language
and Culture course. I've alphabetized the list according to country of
focus and have pasted in a summary of each book.

Thanks so much to all of you who contributed! If any of you have other
suggestions, feel free to add them directly to the spreadsheet.

Thanks again!

Laura Ahearn

On Fri, Jun 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM Laura Ahearn <ahearn8 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> It was great to see so many of you at last week's conference in Chicago. I
> hope you all got home safely and have been able to carry the camaraderie
> and inspiration into your work.
>
> I'm writing to ask for suggestions of *language-focused, full-length
> ethnographies* that would be accessible to high school students enrolled
> in a new two-year Language and Culture course that is being piloted at
> dozens of schools, both public and private, around the world as part of the
> International Baccalaureate (IB) program. As you can see from this
> description,
> <https://www.ibo.org/globalassets/new-structure/university-admission/pdfs/language-and-culture-subject-brief-en.pdf>
> students are required to read at least two full-length ethnographies during
> the two years of the course.
>
> I've been helping to develop the course over the past several years, and
> one challenge has been identifying appropriate ethnographies, so I'm
> turning to all of you to crowdsource a list of full-length (but not too
> long), readable ethnographies dealing with any of the topics listed in the course
> description
> <https://www.ibo.org/globalassets/new-structure/university-admission/pdfs/language-and-culture-subject-brief-en.pdf>.
> I promise to share the list back with you all once I've compiled it.
>
> Thanks in advance for your suggestions! Thanks, too, to those of you who
> offered to be part of a *Language and Culture "Speakers Bureau,"* which
> teachers will be able to use to contact potential virtual or real-life
> visitors to their classes. (It's not too late to volunteer to be a speaker
> if you didn't get a chance to do so earlier; just fill out this short
> Google form
> <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdz1qAlewimgTJ1334mtmhGsxv5sTHSY0l_6rQvTxutBl6Z7w/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=103623215850182931222>
> -- no obligation.)
>
> Have a restful weekend, everyone, and thanks again for supporting the
> sharing of insights from our discipline to high school students!
>
> Laura Ahearn
>
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