"Both a vital theoretical work and a fine illustration of the principles and practice of sensory ethnography, this much anticipated translation is destined to figure as a major catalyst in the expanding field of sensory studies. Drawing on his own fieldwork in Brazil and Japan a…
High points in anthropology
Examines the role of housewife and the esteem attached to the position both in the nineteenth century and in the twentieth.
Righteous dopefiend
by Bourgois, Philippe I., Schonberg, Jeff
fromCalifornia series in public anthropology
This study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. The authors followed a social network of heroin injectors and crack smokers on the streets of San Francisco, accompanying them as they scrambled to generate income t…
