Agar, Michael. The Professional Stranger: An Informal Introduction to Ethnography. NY: Academic Press, 1980.

Atkinson, Paul. The Ethnographic Imagination: Textual Constructions of Reality. London: Routledge Kegan & Paul, 1990.

Becker, Howard. Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1986.

Berkhofer, Robert, Jr. The White Man’s Indian: Images of the American Indian from Columbus to the Present. NY: Vintage, 1979.

Bryman, Alan and Robert G. Burgess. Ed. Analysing Qualitative Data. London: Routledge, 1994.

Burawoy, Michael. Ethnography Unbound. Berkely: U of CA P, 1991.

Clifford, James and George Marcus. Ed. Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. Berkeley: U of CA P, 1986.

Clough, Patricia Ticineto. The End(s) of Ethnography: From Realism to Social Criticism. Newbury Park: Sage, 1992.

Collier, John. Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method. NY: Holt, 1987.

Douglas, Jack. Creative Interviewing. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1985.

---. Investigative Social Research. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1976.

Faigley, Lester. Fragments of Rationality: Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition. Pittsburgh: U of Pitt P, 1992.

Fiske, John. Understanding Popular Culture. Boston: Unwin, 1989.

Hammersley, M and P Atkinson. Ethnography: Principles in Practice. London: Travistock, 1983.

Jackson, Bruce. Fieldwork. Urbana: U of IL P, 1987.

Johnson, John. Doing Fieldwork. New York: Free Press, 1975.

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. Newbury Park, CA. 1987 (choose several issues).

Mills, C. Wright. The Sociological Imagination. NY: Oxford, 1959.

Mishler, Elliot G. Research Interviewing: Context and Narrative. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U P, 1986.

Peacock, James. The Anthropological Lens: Harsh Light, Soft Focus. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1986.

Powdermaker, Hortense. Stranger and Friend: The Way of an Anthropologist. New York: Norton, 1966.

Rosaldo, Renato. Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis. Boston: Beacon, 1989.

Sanjek, Robert. Ed. Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology. Ithaca: Cornell, 1990.

Spradley, James. The Ethnographic Interview. NY: Holt, 1979.

Stoller, Paul. The Taste of Ethnographic Things: The Senses in Anthropology. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1989.

Van Maanen, John. Tales of the Field. On Writing Ethnography. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1988.

Vansina, Jan. Oral Tradition as History. Madison: U of WI P, 1985.

Whyte, William Foote. Learning from the Field: A Guide from Experience. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1984.

Wolcott, Harry. The Art of Fieldwork. Walnut Creek: Altamira-Sage, 1995.

Wolcott, Harry. Writing Up Qualitative Research. Beveryl Hills: Sage, 1990.

Woods, Peter. Inside Schools: Ethnography in Educational Research. London: Routledge Kegan & Paul, 1986.

 Ethnographies, and works that employ ethnographic methods to study culture:

Estroff, Sue E. Making it Crazy: An Ethnography of Psychiatric Clients in an American Community. Berkeley: U of CA, 1981.

Fine, Michelle. Framing Dropouts: Notes on the Politics of an Urbaan Public High School. Albany: SUNY P, 1991.

Fitzgerald, Frances. Cities on a Hill: A Journey through Contemporary American Cultures. New York: Simon, 1986.

Foley, Douglas. The Heartland Chronicles. Philadelphia: U of PA P, 1995.

Glassie, Henry. Passing the Time in Ballymenone: Culture and History of an Ulster Community. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1982.

Griffin, Cris. Typical Girls: Young Women from School to the Job Market. London: RKP, 1985.

Heath, Shirley Brice. Ways with Words: Language, Life and Work in Communities. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1983.

Karp, Ivan and Steven Lavine. Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display. Washington: The Smithsonian, 1991.

Krakauer, Jon. Into Thin Air. New York: Anchor, 1997.

MckRobbie, Angela. Feminism and Youth Culture: From Jackie to Just Seventeen. London: RKP, 1990.

Moffatt, Michael. Coming of Age in New Jersey: College and American Culture. New Brunswick: Rutgers U P, 1989.

Mowat, Farley. Never Cry Wolf. New York: Bantam, 1979.

Rose, Dan. Black American Street Life: South Philadelphia, 1969-1971. Philadelphia: U of Penn P, 1987.

Rose, Michael. Possible Lives: The Promise of Public Education in America. NY: Houghton, 1995.

Tannen, Deborah. You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation. New York: Morrow-Ballantine, 1990.

Toth, Jennifer. The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels of New York City. Chicago: Chicago Review P, 1993.

Turner, Patricia. I Heard it Through the Grapevine: Rumor in African-American Culture. Berkeley: U of California, 1993.

Turkle, Sherry. Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. New York: Simon, 1995.

Urban Life and Culture. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1972—(several issues).

Urry, John. The Tourist Gaze: Leisure and Travel in Contemporary Societies. Newbury Park: Sage, 1990.

Weiler, Kathleen. Women Teaching for Change: Gender, Class, and Power. NY: Bergin and Garvey, 1988.

Whyte, William Foote. Street Corner Society. Chicago: U of Chicago, 1981.

Wolf, Margery. A Thrice-Told Tale: Feminism, Postmodernism, and Ethnographic Responsibility. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1992.

 (Other works by Tracy Kidder might be considered, as could works by Studs Terkel.)

 Fiction, biography, autobiography and poetry that might be considered ethnographic:

Anzaldua, Gloria. Borderlands: La Frontiera: The New Mestiza. San Francisco: Spinsters Aunt Lute, 1987.

Baldwin, James. Notes of a Native Son. Boston: Beacon, 1955.

Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts. New York: Vintage, 1977.

Momaday, M. Scott. House Made of Dawn. New York: Harper, 1966.

Morris, Mary. Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone. Boston: Houghton, 1988.

Naipul, V.S. A Turn in the South. New York: Knopf, 1989.

Rivera, Tomas. . . . And the Earth Did Not Devour Them. (. . . y no se lo trago la tierra). Houston: Arte Publico, 1992.

Works by Jamaica Kincaid, Zora Neale Hurston (e.g., Mules and Men), Louise Erdrich, Paule Marshall, and Barry Lopez might also be appropriate.