ANTH 101: Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology

• Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America (2012), Heather Paxson


• Being Dead Otherwise (2023), Anne Allison


• Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (2009), Karen Ho


• The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence (2020), Laurence Ralph


• The Scattered Family: Parenting, African Migrants, and Global Inequality (2014), Cati Coe. Available through Interlibrary Loan.


• American Afterlives: Reinventing Death in the Twenty-First Century (2021), Shannon Lee Dawdy


• Motherhood on Ice: The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze Their Eggs (2023), Marcia C. Inhorn


• Code Work: Hacking Across the US/México Techno-Borderlands (2023), Héctor Beltrán


• Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn (1991), Karen McCarthy Brown.

Why should I search the library catalog?

We have copies of many of these ethnographies for free!

Try a keyword search. Once you find a book that's relevant to your topic, click on the title and look for Subjects in the record of that book to help you find "more like this."

Sample keyword search for

• ethnography

leads to linked subject terms and more books related to this topic:

• ethnography
• ethnology