Anthropology

Bates, Daniel G., and Elliot M. Fratkin. Cultural Anthropology. 2nd ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1999.

Benedict, Ruth. Patterns of Culture. 1934. Reprint, New York: New American Library, 1959.

Bloomfield, Leonard. Language. 1933. Reprint, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961.

Boas, Franz. "The Limitations of the Comparative Method of Anthropology." In High Points in Anthropology, edited by Paul Bohannan and Mark Glazer, 2nd ed., 81–93. New York: Knopf, 1988. Originally published in 1896.

——. The Mind of Primitive Man. 1911. Reprint, New York: Free Press, 1963.

Boon, James A. Other Tribes, Other Scribes: Symbolic Anthropology in the Comparative Study of Cultures, Histories, Religions, and Texts. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Bopp, Franz. A Comparative Grammar of the Sanskrit, Zend, Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Gothic, German, and Slavonic Languages. Translated principally by Lieutenant Eastwick. London: Madden and Malcolm, 1845–1856, 1867.

Brandewie, Ernest. When Giants Walked the Earth: The Life and Times of Wilhelm Schmidt, SVD. Fribourg, Switzerland: University Press, 1990.

Campbell, Bernard G., ed. Humankind Emerging. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.

Childe, V. Gordon. Man Makes Himself. 1936. Reprint, New York: New American Library, 1951.

Chomsky, Noam. Syntactic Structures. 2nd ed. New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2002. Originally published in 1957.

Crapanzano, Vincent. Hermes' Dilemma and Hamlet's Desire: On the Epistemology of Interpretation. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992.

Daniel, Glyn. The Idea of Prehistory. Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin, 1964.

Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species. New York: Modern Library, 1936. Originally published in 1859.

De Saussure, Ferdinand. Course in General Linguistics. Translated and annotated by Roy Harris. London: G. Duckworth, 1983. Originally published in 1907.

Derrida, Jacques. The Derrida Reader: Writing Performances. Translated and edited by Julian Wolfreys. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998.

Douglas, Mary. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966.

Durkheim, Émile. The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. Translated by Joseph Ward Swain. New York: Collier, 1961. Originally published in 1915.

Fagan, Brian M. Archaeology: A Brief Introduction. 4th ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1991.

Fossey, Dian. Gorillas in the Mist. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983.

Foucault, Michel. The Essential Works of Michel Foucault, 1954–1984. Translated by Robert Hurley, et al. New York: New Press, 1997–2000.

Frazer, Sir James G. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. Abridged ed. New York: Macmillan, 1922.

Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays. New York: Basic Books, 1973.

Gennep, Arnold van. Les rites de passage. 1909. Reprint, Paris: A. and J. Picard, 1981.

Goodall, Jane. Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990.

Grimm, Jacob. On the Origin of Language. Translated by Raymond A. Wiley. Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1984. Originally published in 1851.

Harris, Marvin R. The Rise of Anthropological Theory: A History of Theories of Culture. New York: Crowell, 1968.

Herodotus. The Histories. Translated by Robin Waterfield. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Johanson, Donald C., and Maitland A. Edey. Lucy, the Beginnings of Humankind. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990.

Kroeber, A. L. The Nature of Culture. 1952. Reprint, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965.

Leach, Edmund R. Claude Lévi-Strauss. New York: Viking, 1970.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude. Structural Anthropology. Translated by Claire Jacobson and Brooke Grundfest Schoepf. New York: Basic Books, 1963. Originally published in 1958.

Linton, Ralph. The Cultural Background of Personality. New York: Appleton-Century, 1945.

Littleton, C. Scott. "Anthropology's Moral Cosmos: Reinventing Heisenberg's Wheel and the Need for a Postmodern-Materialist Agenda." Cosmos 15 (1999): 111–127.

Lowie, Robert H. The Crow Indians. 1935. Reprint, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1956.

Lubbock, Sir John (Lord Avebury). Prehistoric Times as Illustrated by Ancient Remains and the Manners and Customs of Modern Savages. 7th ed. New York: Holt, 1913. Originally published in 1865.

Malinowski, Bronislaw. Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea. 1922. Reprint, Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland, 1984.

——. A Scientific Theory of Culture and Other Essays. 1944. Reprint, New York: Oxford University Press, 1960.

Mead, Margaret. Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization. 1928. Reprint, New York: Morrow, 1961.

Mintz, Sydney W. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. New York: Viking, 1985.

More, Jerry D. Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists. Walnut Creek, Calif.: Altamira, 1997.

Morgan, Lewis Henry. Ancient Society, or Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery through Barbarism to Civilization. Chicago: C. H. Kerr, 1877.

——. Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian, 1970.

Pedersen, Holger. The Discovery of Language: Linguistic Science in the Nineteenth Century. Translated by John Webster Spargo. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1962. Originally published in 1959.

Radcliffe-Brown, A. R. Structure and Function in Primitive Society: Essays and Addresses. 1952. Reprint, Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, 1962.

Sapir, Edward. Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech. 1921. Reprint, New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1957.

Service, Elman R. Origins of the State and Civilization: The Process of Cultural Evolution. New York: Norton, 1975.

Smith, G. Eliot. The Diffusion of Culture. London: Watts, 1933. Steward, Julian H. Theory of Culture Change: The Methodology of Multilinear Evolution. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1972.

Stocking, George W., Jr. The Ethnographer's Magic and Other Essays in the History of Anthropology. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992.

Stringer, Chris. African Exodus: The Origins of Modern Humanity. New York: Holt, 1997.

Tacitus, Cornelius. The Germania of Tacitus. Translated by Rodney Potter Robinson. Middletown, Conn.: American Philological Association, 1935.

Turner, Victor W. The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1967.

Tyler, Stephen A. "Post-Modern Ethnography: From Document of the Occult to Occult Document." In Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, edited by James Clifford and George E. Marcus, 122–140. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

Tylor, Sir Edward Burnett. Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Art, and Custom. 2 vols. London: John Murray, 1871.

White, Leslie A. The Science of Culture: A Study of Man and Civilization. New York: Grove, 1949.

Whorf, Benjamin Lee. Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings. Edited by John B. Carroll. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1956.