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• n  an anthropologist who does ethnography

• But he was not a mere ethnographer of exotic poverty.
• Tierney also takes on the swashbuckling ethnographer Napoleon Chagnon, whose 1968 volume Yanomamo: The Fierce People first made the tribe famous and whose books continue to be .
• A tall, somewhat fragile 64-year-old with a bushy gray beard, he was an ethnographer and anthropologist who earned his reputation as an academic specializing in Swahili studies and .

News & Articles

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• Jonathan Lethem’s latest N.Y. novel traces three generations of revolutionaries
  Jonathan Lethem seems as much New York City ethnographer as storyteller. His latest novel, “Dissident Gardens,” combines equal parts history of New York and history of revolution as it tracks three generations of political dissidents emanating from Sunnyside Gardens in Queens.
  Sept. 5, 2013 - The Kansas City Star