Summary:
The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City by Jennifer Toth is ethnography that studies the lives of the people that live underground in New York City. A lot is unknown about these people, it is not even know how many people live underneath the city. Jennifer Toth went underground to study these people and learn about them, including the culture underground and even why the people move underground to begin with.
Discussion:While entertaining and educational, The Mole People does not seem to be have been done like a standard ethnography. Jennifer Toth seems to have an agenda and it appears as if her goal is to show the world that these mole people really are not that dangerous or different than the average person, at least not to the extent that most people assume.
I'm with you - for an ethnography, she sure wasn't blending in, despite her attempts to convince us she was.
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