Product Description: ***Winner of the Eileen Basker Prize and the Wellcome Medal for Anthropology as Applied to Medical Problems.*** On the Game is an ethnographic account of prostitutes and prostitution. Sophie Day has followed the lives of individual women over fifteen years, and her book details their attempts to manage their lives against a backdrop of social disapproval...read more

Product Description: Lilies of the Field presents a broad range of ethnographic studies which share one common feature: They deal with people who try to live in “the present moment.” Some of these people work as wage laborers, some forage in the forest or in the sea, and still others trade or till the land...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)