Can you recommend some books to me similar to the sociology-of-a-subculture style of Hunter S. Thompson's Hell's Angels, Sudhir Venkatesh's Gang Leader for a Day and Bill Buford's Among the Thugs? [more inside]
posted by Ufez Jones on Mar 15, 2009 - 26 answers

I've scoured the interweb trying to translate the script on these stones with no luck. Help appease my curiousity! [more inside]
posted by jofuu on Dec 2, 2008 - 11 answers

Help me find an ethnographic field site in Chicago. [more inside]
posted by trouserlouse on Apr 16, 2008 - 10 answers

What non-fiction books or documentary films explore a subculture or lifestyle as effectively as Henry Chalfant & Tony Silver's Style Wars and Hunter S. Thompson's Hell's Angels? [more inside]
posted by njm on Jul 26, 2006 - 42 answers

How can anthropologists contribute to the answering of questions about the brain and consciousness in the 21st century? [more inside]
posted by eighth_excerpt on Feb 14, 2006 - 8 answers