ANTHROPOLOGY:
Clifford Geertz. The Interpretation of Cultures. Basic Books, 1973.
Norman K. Denzin. Interpretive Ethnography: Ethnographic Practices for the 21st Century. Sage, 1997.
Ruth Behar. The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.
Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, & Linda L. Shaw. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes. University of Chicago Press, 1995.
INDIA: (readings suggested by Jeanne Hahn. We will miss her in India).
Stanley Wolpert. A New History of India.
Khushwant Singh. Train to Pakistan.
Bapsi Sidhwa, Cracking India.
R. K. Narayan. Malgudi Days.