My favorite ethnographies…

Babel, Anna. 2018. Between the Andes and the Amazon: Language and Social Meaning in Bolivia. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Romero, Sergio. 2015. Language and Ethnicity among the K’ichee’ Maya. Provo: University of Utah Press.

Cavanaugh, Jillian. 2012. Living Memory: The Social Aesthetics of Language in a Northern Italian Town. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell.

Webster, Anthony. 2015. Intimate grammars. An Ethnography of Navajo Poetry. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Olszewska, Zuzanna. 2015. The Pearl of Dari: Poetry and Personhood among young Afghans in Iran. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.