A little frustrated.

My search for good ethnographic writing is frustrating. I am having a hard time finding actual ethnographic writing, and finding a whole lot on how to write ethnographically. Anyone else having this issue?

Anyways - though I am still searching (and will have articles printed out for tomorrows meeting) I wanted to throw out there my ideas and what I am searching for.

It started with the search for an ethnographic writing on indigenous people. Not even a certain indigenous group. Just any of them, and I figure this is something someone out there must have done by now, but as I said before my search is not going the way I had hoped. Then I narrowed it a bit more and searched for ethnographic research on indigenous shamanic practice, which turned up a bit more than the previous attempt. 

So then I thought to search for a piece about the music industry, which I found a couple things. Even still, not getting the search results I had hoped for. My thought was to find two ethnographic pieces on different cultures that I could compare and contrast in my paper. Here are some links to what I have found.

1. The Newcastle music industry: An ethnographic studyof a regional creative system in action

2. Queer shamans: autoarchaeologyand neo-shamanism

3. Ethnographic Perspectives on Differentiating Shamansfrom other Ritual Intercessors

With all that said - I am continuing my search and narrowing my ideas. I just wanted to put up a post on what I have so far, and to share my small frustration in finding pieces that I find interesting. 

If any of you have a good search down where you can get a more broad spectrum of ethnographic research to show up, please let me know. I'm finding I need to get really specific with what I want in order to get results. 

Excited to meet with you all tomorrow, and I hope you are having a great holiday weekend!