Ethnography in Transit Colloquium: "Anthropology and the Humanities: An Introductory Discussion"

Facilitated by John Caughey (American Studies), Ralph Bauer (English and Comparative Literature), and Shela Jelen (English and Comparative Literature)

Readings:

Mark Zborowski and Elizabeth Herzog Life is With People: The Culture of the Shtetl (NY: Schoken Books, 1995) ix-68.

Barbara Meyerhoff, Number our Days (NY: Simon and Shuster, 1978) 40-57.

Vine Deloria, Jr. Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (London: Macmillian, 1969) pp. 78-100.

John Van Maanen, Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography (Chicago: University of Chicago, 2011) 145-182.

James Clifford, “On Ethnographic Authority” Representations 2 (Spring, 1983) pp. 118-146.

http://www.english.umd.edu/ethnography