Laura Bohannan
"Shakespeare in the Bush"
Zora Neal Hurston
Mules and Men (Introduction and Chapter 1)
E.E. Evans-Pritchard
The Nuer: A Description of The Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People
Clifford Geertz
The Interpretations of Culture (Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture AND Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight)
Laura Nader
Women in the Field: Anthropological Experiences
Joao Biehl
Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment
Theodore C. Bestor
Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World (Chapter 1: Tokyo's Pantry)
TianTian Zheng
Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China
James T. Siegel
"Academic Work: The View from Cornell"
Mary Douglas
Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
Sherry B. Ortner
"On Key Symbols"
Victor Turner
Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites de Passage
Katherine Bowie
In Rituals of National Loyalty: An Anthropology of the State and Village Scout Movement in Thailand
E.E. Evans-Pritchard
Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande
Michael Taussig
The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
Lila Abu-Lughod
"Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?"
T. Boellstorff
"Dubbing Culture: Indonesian 'Gay' and 'Lesbi' Subjectivities and Ethnography in an Already Globalized World"
Marcel Mauss
The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Soceities
Carol Stack
All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community
Barbara Miller
Cultural Anthropology
Nancy Scheper-Hugues
"Death Without Weeping: Has Poverty Ravaged Mother Love in their Shantytowns of Brazil?"
Margary Wolf
Women and the Family in Rural Taiwan (Uterine Families and the Women Community)
Paul Farmer
On Suffering and Structural Violence: A View from Below
Veena Das
"Language and Body: Transacations in the Construction of Pain"
Mike McGovern
"This is Play"
Alexander Hinton
"Why Did You Kill? The Cambodian Genocide and the Dark Side of Face and Honor"
Philippe Bourgois
"Office Work and the Crack Alternative Among Puerto Rican Drug Dealers in East Harlem"
