Here’s a monograph, though I bet articles would suffice.

Thanks dude! You are so good at reference. Must be all that LIS2002 knowledge!

Chandra Talpade Mohanty‘s essay Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourse was required reading in several of Dr. Constable’s classes on gender. It’s around twenty years old and it’s not an ethnography, but it’s an excellent critical piece on discursive colonization.

There’s got to be some useful stuff in Edward Said’s body of work as well. Again, though, not really ethnography but good for establishing a strong context in which to read ethnographies.

Some actual ethnographies:

Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club by Anne Allison. Hostess clubs are an amazing thing.

Street Foods: Urban Food and Employment in Developing Countries by Irene Tinker. I wrote a final paper about this study – Tinker and the Equity Policy Center enacted fairly successful programs in a variety of urban centers as part of a development program aimed at women. They created initiatives that enabled women to participate in a capital economy in a way that made cultural and personal sense. You get a bit of mini-ethnography for each of the cities that they worked in. There may be recipes in it.

I read this book about six years ago, though, so all of my memories of it could be incorrect.