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25 Jun, 5 tweets, 3 min read
Everyone, recommend Dr. Hughes some ethnography books. I have a few recommendations.

@anapggarza "Care for Sale" OUP

@HugoCA15 "Privilege at Play" OUP

@MaxLiboiron "Pollution is Colonialism" (not specifically ethnography but AMAZING book)

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.@sladner "Practical Ethnography"

@matorrew "Natural Resources, Extraction and Indigenous Rights in Latin America: Exploring the Boundaries of Environmental and State-Corporate Crime in Bolivia, Peru, and Mexico"

@miriamboeri & Rashi Shukla's edited volume "Inside Ethnography"
I also recommend Davis and Craven's feminist ethnography

Also, $200 USD is not going to get you anywhere at Routledge or SAGE.

rowman.com/ISBN/978075912…
Recent ethnographies I loved:

@aballes2 's A Future History of Water. I have a physical copy even though the digital one is #Free2DownloadAndRead

Anand Pandian's "A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times" is also lovely.

Kristen Ghodsee's From Notes to Narrative.
And Kirin Narayan's "Alive in the Writing"

I tend to buy 3 types of ethnography books:

1) ethnographies (book-length)

2) ethnographic methods

3) how to write ethnography

Hope these suggestions help!

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