Highly Readable and Relevant:
A Reading List for Non-Anthropologists
Nigel Barley, The Innocent Anthropologist
Keith Basso, Wisdom Sits in Places
Peter Berger
Piya Chatterjee, A Time for Tea
E. Fernea, Guests of the Sheik
Clifford Geertz, Interpretations of Culture
Amitav Ghosh, In an Antique Land
Marie Gillespie, Television, Ethnicity, and Cultural Change
Pierre Helias, The Horse of Pride
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, The Peasants of Languedoc; Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error
Elliot Liebow, Tally’s Corner
Tanya Luhrmann, Of Two Minds
Jerome Mintz, Hasidic People, a Place in the New World
Sid Mintz, Sweetness and Power; Tasting Food
Barbara Myerhoff, Number Our Days
Susan Parman, Scottish Crofters
Douglas Raybeck, Mad Dogs, Englishmen, and the Errant Anthropologist
Lillian Rubin, Worlds of Pain
Shostak, NISA
Carol Stack, Call to Home; All our Kin
Michael Stewart, Time of the Gypsies
Anna Tsing, In the Realm of the Diamond Queen
William Wormsley, The White Man Will Eat You