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List of Urban and Rural Ethnographies for Book Report
Below you will find a list of ethnographies and community studies. You will pick a text, read it, and
write an analytical book review on the text that summarizes the work and finds links between it and other
things we’ve done in the course. Your report should place the author’s study of the community within the
context of the course. You will point which social structures and/or processes the ethnography
emphasizes as well as where you think the argument falls within the community, lost, found and liberated
framework and why. No plagiarism of the text without proper citation will be tolerated; if I discover any
problems, you will be asked to correct it before I will grade the paper.
Complete citations have been provided. Information on the topic of the text is inside [ ]. Some texts are
available at Helm-Cravens, others through interlibrary loan, others will need to be purchased. Attached is
an alphabetical list of the readings and where you can get them. My advice is that you pick one that
interests you—reading something you do not find interesting will make for a long semester.
Ethnographies of US Urban Communities
Abu-Lughod, Janet L. 1994. From Urban Village to East Village: The Battle for New York’s Lower East
Side. Cambridge: Blackwell.
Anderson, Elijah. 1978. A Place on the Corner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press [Study of a black
neighborhood in Chicago in the early 70s].
Anderson, Elijah. 1990. Streetwise. University of Chicago Press. [Culture of Gangs in Philadelphia]
Bourgois, Philippe. In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
[about a community of Puerto Ricans in New York who struggle to survive, many by selling
crack or their bodies].
Byington, Margaret F. 1974 [1910]. Homestead: The Households of a Mill Town. Pittsburgh:
University of Pittsburgh Press. [A 1910 study of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania].
Caplow, Theodore, Howard M. Bahr, Bruce A. Chadwick, Reuben Hill, Margaret Holmes Williamson.
Middletown Families : Fifty Years of Change and Continuity. Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press. [50 year restudy of Lynd’s study of Muncie, Indiana]
Curti, Merle. 1959. The Making of an American Community: A Case Study of Democracy in a Frontier
County. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press [Historical study of Trempealeau County,
Wisconsin].
Dandaneau, Steven P. 1996. A Town Abandoned: Flint, Michigan Confronts Deindustrialization.
Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Davis, Peter. 1982. Hometown. New York: Simon and Schuster. [A History of Hamilton, Ohio (near
Cincinnati)]
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Frantz, Douglas and Catherine Collins. 2000. Celebration, U.S.A.: Living in Disney’s Brave New Town.
Owl Books.
Gans, Herbert J. 1962. The Urban Villagers: Group and Class in the Life of Italian-Americans. The Free
Press of Glencoe.
Gans, Herbert J. 1967. The Levittowners. London: Allen Lane.
Gerber, Stanford Neil. 1985. Russkoya Celo: The Ethnography of a Russian-American Community.
AMS Press.
Halperin, Rhoda H. Practicing Community: Class Culture and Power in an Urban Neighborhood. Austin :
University of Texas Press, 1998 [Study of the East End neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio].
Hirsch, Kathleen. 1998. A Home in the Heart of a City. New York : North Point Press.
Hollingshead, August B. 1949. Elmtown’s Youth. New York: Wiley.
Hunter, Floyd. 1953. Community Power Structure: A Study of Decision Makers. 1953. Chapel Hill, NC:
University of North Carolina Press. [Classic study of the political power structure of Atlanta]
Illick, Joseph E. 1989. At Liberty: The Story of a Community and a Generation. Knoxville, TN:
University of Tennessee Press [study of the high school class of 1952 from Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania].
Kidder, Tracy. 1999. Home Town. Random House. [Study of Northhampton, Massachusetts]
Kirsch, Max H. 1998. In the Wake of the Giant: Multinational Restructuring and Uneven Development
in a New England Community. Albany: State University of New York Press [Study of a
community struggling to survive as their main employer (GE) downsizes.].
Koenig, Samuel. 1991. An American Jewish Community: 50 Years, 1889-1939. Stamford, CT: The
Stamford Historical Society. [about this community in Stamford, CT]
Korrol, Virginia E. Sanchez. 1983. From Colonia to Community: The History of Puerto Ricans in New
York City. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Lemke-Santangelo. 1996. Abiding Courage: African American Women and the East Bay Community.
University of North Carolina Press. [San Francisco]
Liebow, Elliot. 1967. Tally’s Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men. Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
Lynd, Robert and Helen Lynd. 1929. Middletown: A Study in American Culture. New York: Harcourt
Brace.
Lynd, Robert and Helen Lynd. 1937. Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts. New
York: Harcourt Brace.
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MacLeod, Jay. 1983. Ain't No Makin' It: Leveled Aspirations in a Low-Income Neighborhood. Westivew
Press. [focuses on two groups of teenage boys, one black one white and struggles they both face].
McDougall, Harold A. 1994. Black Baltimore: A New Theory of Community. Philadelphia, PA:
Temple University Press.
McMahon, Eileen M. 1995. What Parish are You From? A Chicago Irish Community and Race
Relations. University of Kentucky Press.
Medoff, Peter and Holly Sklar. 1994. Streets of Hope: The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood.
South End Press.
Myerhoff, Barbara. 1978. Number Our Days. Simon and Schuster. [Los Angeles, focuses on the lives of
Jewish senior citizens who utilize a community center there].
Nix, Harold L. 1966. Community Social Analysis of Macon-Bibb County, Georgia. Athens, Georgia:
Georgia Department of Public Health.
Nix, Harold L. 1969. Community Social Analysis of Athens–Clarke County. Athens, Georgia: Institute
of Community and Area Development and Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
Nix, Harold L. and Charles J. Dudley. 1965. Community Social Analysis of Savannah-Chatham County.
Athens, Georgia: Georgia Department of Public Health.
Nix, Harold L. and Charles J. Dudley. 1966. Community Social Analysis of Augusta–Richmond
County. Athens, Georgia: Georgia Department of Public Health.
Nix, Harold L. and Norma R. Seerley. 1972. Community Social Analysis of Dekalb County, Georgia.
Athens, Georgia: Institute of Community and Area Development and Department of Sociology
and Anthropology.
Orser, Edward W. 1994. Blockbusting in Baltimore: The Edmondson Village Story. University Press of
Kentucky.
Pardo, Mary S. 1998. Mexican American Women Activists: Identity and Resistance in Two Los
Angeles Communities. Philadelphia, Pa: Temple University Press.
Rieder, Jonathan. 1985. Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn against Liberalism. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press.
Rooney, Jim. 1995. Organizing the South Bronx. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Ross, Andrew. 2000. The Celebration Chronicles: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Property Value in
Disney’s New Town. Ballantine Books.
Sikes, Gini. 1993. 8 Ball Chicks: A Year in the Violent World of Girl Gangs. Anchor Books.
Simon, David and Edward Burns. 1997. The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner City Neighborhood.
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Broadway Books.
Toth, Jennifer. 1993. The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City. Chicago Review
Press. [A homeless “Community” of New York]
Warner, W. Lloyd. 1949 and 1963. Democracy in Jonesville: A Study in Quality and Inequality. New
York: Harper and Row. [Politics and Economics in Northern City]
Warner, W. Lloyd and Paul S. Lunt. 1941. The Social Life of a Modern Community: Yankee City
Series Volume I. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Weibel-Orlando, Joan. 1999. Indian Country, L.A.: Maintaining Ethnic Community in Complex Society.
University of Illinois Press.
Whyte, William Foote. 1973. Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
Wirth, Louis. 1928 and 1956. The Ghetto. University of Chicago Press. [Chicago Jewish
Community—early 20th Century]
Wylie, Jeanie. 1989. Poletown: Community Betrayed. University of Illinois Press. [Detroit, General
Motors and Community]
Zorbaugh, H.W. 1929. The Gold Coast and the Slum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Study of
the Lower North Side of Chicago.]
Ethnographies of US Rural Communities
Basso, Keith H. 1986. The Cibecue Apache. Waveland Press [a small settlement on the Fort Apache
Indian Reservation].
Bauer, Douglas. 1979. Prairie City, Iowa: Three Seasons at Home. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons.
Beaver, Patricia Duane. 1986. Rural Community in the Appalachian South. Lexington, KY: The
University Press of Kentucky [Study of three small communities in Appalachian North Carolina].
Caudill, Harry M. 1963. Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area. Boston:
Little, Brown & Co. [Kentucky Coal Mining Region]
Couch, Stephen and J. Stephen Kroll-Smith. 1990. The Real Disaster is Above Ground: A Mine Fire and
Social Conflict. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press.
Crawford, Colin. 1996. Uproar at Dancing Rabbit Creek: Battling Over Race, Class, and the
Environment. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. [Study of a Battle to Site a Dump in a rural
Mississippi County.]
Davis, Allison; Burleigh B. Gardner; and Mary R. Gardner. 1941. Deep South: A Social Anthropological
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Study of Caste and Class. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Denton, Craig. 1999. People of the West Desert: Finding Common Ground. Utah State University
Press.
Dollard, John. 1949. Caste and Class in a Southern Town. Garden City, NY: Doublebay & Co., Inc.
[Deep South]
Dozier, Edward P. 1966. Hano: A Tewa Indian Community in Arizona. Harcourt Brace College
Publishers [Examines relationships of the whites, Tewa Indians, and Hopi Indians in Hano].
Ellis, Carolyn. 1986. Fisher Folk: Two Communities on Chesapeake Bay. University Press of
Kentucky.
Erickson, Kai. 1976. Everything in Its Path: The Destruction of the Buffalo Creek Flood. New York:
Simon and Schuster. [West Virginia Mining Town attempts to recover from disaster]
Fetterman, John. 1970. Stinking Creek: The Portrait of a Small Mountain Community in Appalachia.
New York: E.P. Dutton and Company. [Study of a Kentucky mountain village]
Fike, Rupert (ed.). 1998. Voices from the Farm: Adventures in Community Living. Book Publishing
Company. [oral history of an intentional community founded in the 60s in Tennessee]
Foley, Douglas E. 1995. The Heartland Chronicles: Tama Welcomes You. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press. [Whites and Indians together in an Iowa Community]
Garkovich, Lorraine, Janet L. Bokemeier, and Barbara Foote. 1995. Harvest of Hope: Family
Farming/Farming Families. [Examines rural family life and community ties in Kentucky]
Harvey, David L. 1993. Potter Addition: Poverty, Family, and Kinship in a Heartland Community.
[Study of a Midwestern town’s Urban Appalachian slum]
Hatch, Elvin J. 1979. Biography of a Small Town. Columbia University Press.
Heat-Moon, William Least. 1991. PrairyErth: (a deep map). Boston: Houghton Mifflin [Study of
Chase County, Kansas].
Hicks, George L. 1992. Appalachian Valley. Waveland Press [the Little Laurel Valley in western North
Carolina].
Hicks, Granville. 1946. Small Town. New York: The MacMillan Company [Study of a New England
farming community during and after the depression.]
Hostetler. 1982. The Amish. Scottsdale, PA: Herald Press.
Hoyman, Michele. 1997. Power Steering: Global Automakers and the Transformation of Rural
Communities. University Press of Kansas.
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Hugill, Peter J. 1995. Upstate Arcadia: Landscape, Aesthetics, and the Triumph of Social
Differentiation in America. Lanham, MA: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers [Study of
Cazenovia, New York].
Jameson, Elizabeth. 1998. All That Glitters: Class, Conflict, and Community in Cripple Creek. [Mining
Town in a Western State]
Kenzer, Robert C. 1987. Kinship and Neighborhood in a Southern Community: Orange County, North
Carolina, 1849-1881.Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press.
Landis, Paul H. 1997 [1938]. Three Iron Mining Towns: A Study in Cultural Change. Middleton, WI:
Social Ecology Press.
Lane, Patricia G. 1985. Mountain View: An Ethnographic Account of Cooperation and Conflict in a
Tennessee Community on the Cumberland Plateau. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee.
McFee, Malcolm. 1986 [1972]. Modern Blackfeet: Montanans on a Reservation. Prospect Heights, IL:
Waveland Press. [assimilation and acculturation of a Native community on a reservation]
Morland, John Kenneth. 1958. Millways of Kent. New Haven, CN: College and University Press.
[North Carolina]
Nix, Harold L., Donald Shoemaker, and Ram Singh. 1967. Community Social Analysis of Oglethorpe
County, Georgia. Athens, Georgia: Institute of Community and Area Development and
Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
Poston, Richard Waverly. 1950. Small Town Renaissance: A Story of the Montana Study. New York:
Harper and Brothers.
Raban, Jonathan. 1996. Bad Land: An American Romance. Pantheon Books. [Study of homesteading
drive of Montana community].
Ramsay, Meredith. 1996. Community, Culture, and Economic Development: The Social Roots of Local
Action. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press [Study of a rural Maryland county].
Rayside, David M. 1991. A Small Town in Modern Times: Alexandria, Ontario. McGill-Queen’s
University Press.
Redfield, Robert. Tepoztlan: A Mexican Village. Chicago University Press. 1930.
Redfield, Robert. Folk Culture of Yucatan. 1934.
Schwarzweller, Harry K., James S. Brown, and J.J. Mangalam. Mountain Families in Transition.
University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press. [a study of migration from an
Appalachian community after World War II]
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Varano, Charles S. 1999. Forced Choices: Class, Community, and Worker Ownership. Albany, NY:
State University of New York Press.
Vidich, Arthur J. and Joseph Bensman. 1958. Small Town in Mass Society: Class, Power and
Religion in a Rural Community. Princeton: Princeton University Press. [Small Town in Upstate
New York]
West, James. 1945. Plainville, USA. New York: Columbia University Press. [Southern Midwest,
Farming Town]
Ethnographies with an International Focus
Aceves, Joseph B. and Wilfrid C. Bailey. 1967. Community Analysis of El Pinar, Spain. Athens,
Georgia: Georgia Department of Public Health.
Arensberg, C.A. and Kimball, S.T. 1940. Family and Community in Ireland. Oxford: Oxford University
Press. [Study of two townlands in County Clare]
Armstrong, Alan. 1974. Stability and Change in an English Country Town: A Social Study of York
1801-1851. London: Cambridge University Press.
Barke, M. and G. Turnbull. 1992. Meadowell: The Biography of an ‘Estate With Problems.’ Avebury:
Gower.
Baskauskas, Liucija. 1985. Urban Enclave: Lithuanian Refugees in Los Angeles. AMS Press.
Beals, Alan R. 1980. Gopalpur: A South Indian Village. Harcourt Brace College Publishers.
Bell, Michael M., and Christian P. Drury. 1995. Childerly: The Moral Landscape of a Country Village.
University of Chicago Press.
Belshaw, Cyril S. 2004. The Great Village: The Economic and Social Welfare of Hanuabada, An Urban
Community in Papua. Routledge.
Boissevain, Jeremy. 1980. A Village in Malta. Harcourt Brace College Publishers. [Muslim and Christian
church influences]
Bowes, Alison. M. 1989. Kibbutz Goshen: An Israeli Commune. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press.
[communal living/even communistic living]
Brandi, Vincent S. R. 1971. A Korean Village: Between Farm and Sea. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press. [the first ethnography of a Korean village translated into English]
Brogger, Jan. 1992. Nazare: Women and Men in a Pre-Bureaucratic Purtugese Fishing Village. Harcourt
Brace College Publishers. [Women controlling economy and decision-making in this village]
Chan, Anita. 1985. Chen Village: The Recent History of a Peasant Community in Mao’s China.
University of California Press.
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Chance, Norman A. 1991. China’s Urban Villagers: Changing Life in a Beijing Suburb. Harcourt Brace
College Publishers. [a small village within the borders of a large state farm on the outskirts of
Beijing.]
Crehan, Kate A.F. 1997. The Fractured Community: Landscapes of Power and Gender in Rural Zambia.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Davis, Diane E. 1994. Urban Leviathan: Mexico City in the Twentieth Century. Philadelphia: Temple
University Press.
Dennis, F., F. Henriques, and C. Slaughter. 1956. Coal is Our Life: An Analysis of a Yorkshire Mining
Community. London: Tavistock.
Driben, Paul. 1985. We are Metis: The Ethnography of a Halfbreed Community in Northern Alberta.
AMS Press.
Durant, R. 1939. Watling: A Survey of Social Life on a New Housing Estate. London: P.S. King.
Epstein, A.L. 1958. Politics in an Urban African Community. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
[African Community study]
Fakhouri, Hani. 1987. Kafr El-Elow: Continuity and Change in an Egyptian Community. Prospect
Heights, IL: Waveland Press.
Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock. 1975. A Street in Marrakech. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books. [book
focuses on the anthropologists' family life and experiences in Marrakech, Morocco.]
Foster, George M. 1988 [1979] Tzintzuntzan: Mexican Peasants in a Changing World. Prospect Heights,
IL: Waveland Press. [modernization brought to a primitive community]
Fox, Robin. 1978. The Tory Islanders: A People of the Celtic Fringe. Cambridge University Press. [about
a rural community of Gaelic speakers who live on an island off the coast of Ireland]
Frankenberg, Ronald. 1990. Village on the Border: A Social Study of Religion, Politics and Football in a
North Wales Community. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press. [a small Welsh community
struggling to uphold its traditions]
Freeman, James M. 1985 [1977]. Scarcity and Opportunity in an Indian Village. Prospect Heights,
IL: Waveland Press. [a look at the temple village of Kapileswar in Asian India]
Friedl, Erika. 1989. Women of Deh Koh: Lives in an Iranian Village. Penguin Books. [focuses on the
lives of women living in a rural Iranian village, their muslim religion, their relationships, their
marriages, wearing of the veil, etc.]
Friedl, Ernestine. 1962. Vasilika: A Village in Modern Greece. Holt, Rinehart, Winston. [study of a
Greek village in the 1950s].
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Galt, Anthony H. 1992. Town and Country in Locorotondo. Harcourt Brace College Publishers. [An
Italian village, relations to Italian culture]
Gluckman, M. 1964. Closed Systems and Open Minds. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
[African Community Study]
Gudeman, Stephen. 2004. Relationships, Residence and the Individual: A Rural Panamanian
Community. Routledge
Holmes, Lowell D. and Ellen Rhoads Holmes. 1992. Samoan Village: Then and Now. Harcourt Brace
College Publishers.
Holston, James. 1989. The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasilia. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
Horowitz, Michael M. 1967. Morne-Paysan. Peasant Village in Martinique. New York: Holt, Rinehart,
Winston. [Carribean]
Isbell, Billie Jean. 1985 [1978]. To Defend Ourselves: Ecology and Ritual in an Andean Village.
Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press. [a study of the means by which this community protects
itself from outside interests]
Jennings, H. 1962. Societies in the Making: A Study of Development and Redevelopment Within a
Country Borough. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Keiser, Lincoln. 1991. Friend by Day, Enemy by Night: Organized Vengeance in a Kohistani
Community. Harcourt Brace College Publishers. [blood feuding in a Pakistani Kush Community]
Kennedy, John C. 1996. Labrador Village. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press. [a subarctic
community in Canada]
Knepper, Cathy D. 2001. Greenbelt, Maryland: A Living Legacy of the New Deal. Johns Hopkins
Press.
Lancaster, William. 1997. The Rwala Bedouin Today. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press. [nomadic
community on Arabian peninsula]
Littlejohn, J. 1963. Westrigg: The Sociology of a Cheviot Parish. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Lomnitz. L.A. 1977. Networks and Marginality: Life in a Mexican Shanty Town. New York:
Academic Press.
Messenger, John C. 1983 [1969]. Inis Beag: Isle of Ireland. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press. [a
look at one of the barren islands of the Irish Gaeltacht]
Pahl, R.E. 1984. Divisions of Labour. Oxford: B. Blackwell.
Paneth, M. 1944. Branch Street. London: George Allen and Unwin.
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Parker, T. 1983. The People of Providence: A Housing Estate and Some of Its Inhabitants. London:
Penguin.
Parker, T. 1986. Red Hill: A Mining Community. Sevenoaks: Coronet. [English mining community]
Parkin, David J. 1972. Palms, Wine, and Witnesses: Public Sprit and Private Gain in an African Farming
Community. San Francisco: Chandler Publishing Company. [economic development among the
Giriama of Kenya]
Parman, Susan. 1990. Scottish Crofters: A Historical Ethnography of a Celtic Village. Harcourt Brace
College Publishers. [Historical reconstruction—using art--of a Highland village]
Perlman, J.E. 1976. The Myth of Marginality: Urban Poverty and Politics in Rio de Janeiro. Berkeley:
University of California Press.
Reck, Gregory G. 1986 [1978]. In the Shadow of Tlaloc: Life in a Mexican Village. Prospect Heights,
IL: Waveland Press. [a spiritual village changed by modern economic development]
Rees, A. 1950. Life in a Welsh Countryside. Cardiff: University of Wales Press [Exploration of farm
life and politics in mid-Wales].
Roberts, B. 1978. Cities of Peasants. London: Edward Arnold. [Latin American community study]
Roessner, Jane. 2000. A Decent Place to Live: From Columbia Point to Harbor Point–A Community
History. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies.
Rohner, Ronald P. and Evelyn C. Bettauer. 1986 [1970]. The Kwakiutl: Indians of British Columbia.
Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press. [a native american fishing village on Gilford Island]
Scott, James C. 1985. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. New Haven, CN:
Yale University Press. [study of power relationships in a Malaysian village]
Seeley, J.R., R.A. Sim, and E.W. Loosley. 1956. Crestwood Heights. New York: Basic Books.
Shkilnyk, Anastasia. 1985. A Poison Stronger Than Love: The Destruction of an Ojibwa Community.
New Haven, CN: Yale University Press. [Study of the effects of relocation on an Ojibwa
village.]
Sinha, Murli M. 1983. Modernization and Community Power: A Comparative Study of Two Villages in
India. Stosius.
Spencer, J. with J. Tuxfors, and N. Dennis. 1964. Stress and Release in an Urban Estate. London:
Tavistock.
Stacey, M. 1960. Tradition and Change: A Study of Banbury. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Stacey, M., E. Batstone, C. Bell, and A. Murcott. 1975. Power, Persistence and Change: A Second
Study of Banbury. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Stearman, Allyn MacLean. 1995. San Rafael, Camba Town: Life in a Lowland Bolivian Peasant
Community. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press. [Story of a Peace Corps volunteer in an
isolated village]
Strathern, M. 1981. Kinship at the Core: An Anthropology of Elmdon, Essex. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Vogt, Evon Z. 1990. The Zinacantecos of Mexico: A Modern Maya Way of Life. Philadelphia: Harcourt
Brace Jovanovich College Publishers. [A look at a Mayan community in Mexico—the state of
Chiapas]
Waddington, D., M. Wykes, and C. Critcher. 1990. Split and the Seams? Community Continuity and
Change After the 1984 Coal Dispute. Buckingham: Open University Press.
Walbridge, Linda S. 1997. Without Forgetting the Imam: Lebanese Shi’ism in an American Community.
Detroit: Wayne State University Press. [A Lebanese Shi’ite Community in Dearborn, MI.—the
largest such community outside the Middle East.]
Wilson, G. 1941. An Essay on the Economics of Destabilization in Northern Rhodesia. Lusaka:
Rhodes-Livingstone Institute. [Study of a Copper Mining Community.]
Wylie, Laurence. 1957, 1964, and 1974. Village in the Vaucluse. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
[Study of a French Village (written in English)]
Yoors, Jan. The Gypsies. Waveland Press, 1967. [Belgian boy runs away at age 12 to join the gypsies.
Tells of his adventures over the span of 10 years, and then his return]