So I studied anthropology in college and love ethnographic writings, mostly because I had to read several of them for class.

I still have "Selling Crack in El Barrio" by Phillippe Bourgois which studies Crack dealers and gangsters in East Harlem. Topics of drugs, gang rape, various assault, etc. This is also a good example of real world anthropologist ethics and the kinds of lengths people may be expected to go to to ingrain themselves into one of these communities.

Of the ethics papers and examples the ones I remember best are the month we spent on dead children. One was a study from Mexico where they intentionally let one group starve and supplement another to see the effects of malnutrition. There's also a story of a migrant family in India who dropped their baby in the fire and the anthropologist having to decide whether to try and help the baby and potentially harm the study or do nothing. Oh, and the story of a baby starving to death being taken by a woman in the peace corps to a hospital to be treated for malnutrition.

On genocide, studies on the culture and cultural factors leading to genocides. The Holocaust, Rwanda, Bosnia, Hutus, on and on. There's also a couple papers on softer genocides like residential schools in North America, attempted degradation of black culture through speech patterns and code switching, selective breeding.