This bibliography of anthropology lists some notable publications in the field of
anthropology , including its various subfields. It is not comprehensive and continues to be developed. It also includes a number of works that are not by anthropologists but are relevant to the field, such as literary theory, sociology, psychology, and philosophical anthropology.
Anthropology is the study of
humanity .
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[3] Described as "the most humanistic of sciences and the most scientific of the humanities",
[4] it is considered to bridge the
natural sciences ,
social sciences and
humanities ,
[5] and draws upon a wide range of related fields. In North America, anthropology is traditionally divided into four major subdisciplines:
biological anthropology ,
sociocultural anthropology ,
linguistic anthropology and
archaeology .
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[7] Other academic traditions use less broad definitions, where one or more of these fields are considered separate, but related, disciplines.
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Sociocultural anthropology
Chronological bibliography
From the beginnings to 1899
Georg Forster ,
A Voyage Round the World , 1777
[10] : 28–29
Immanuel Kant ,
Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View , 1798
Jacob Burckhardt ,
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy , 1860
Johann Jakob Bachofen , Myth, Religion, and Mother Right: Selected Writings of J.J. Bachofen , 1861 (English translation: 1967)
Edward Burnett Tylor ,
Primitive Culture , 1871
[10] : 116
Lewis H. Morgan ,
Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family (1871),
Ancient Society , 1877
John Wesley Powell , The Arid Lands (originally published as Report on the Lands of the Arid Regions of the United States ), 1878
[10] : 39
Adolf Bastian , Der Völkergedanke im Aufbau einer Wissenschaft vom Menschen , 1881 (German; not yet translated into English)
[10] : 86–87
Friedrich Engels ,
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State , 1884
Anténor Firmin , The Equality of the Human Races , 1885
James George Frazer ,
The Golden Bough , 1890
[11]
Edvard Westermarck ,
The History of Human Marriage , 1891
[10] : 163
James Mooney , The Ghost-dance religion and the Sioux outbreak of 1890. US
Bureau of American Ethnology , 1892-3 Annual Report, 2 vols., 1896.
1900s and 1910s
Henri Hubert and
Marcel Mauss , A General Theory of Magic , 1902 (republished by Mauss in 1950)
Émile Durkheim , Primitive Classification , 1903
[11]
Max Weber ,
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism , 1905 (English translation: 1930)
Arnold van Gennep , The Rites of Passage , 1909
Lucien Lévy-Bruhl , How Natives Think , 1910
Franz Boas ,
The Mind of Primitive Man , 1911
Fritz Graebner , Methode der Ethnologie , 1911 (in German, not yet translated into English)
Émile Durkheim,
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life , 1912
[11]
Sigmund Freud ,
Totem and Taboo , 1913
W. H. R. Rivers , Kinship and Social Organisation , 1914
Max Weber,
The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism , 1915 (English translation: 1951)
1920s and 1930s
Bronisław Malinowski ,
Argonauts of the Western Pacific , 1922
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Alfred Radcliffe-Brown , The Andaman Islanders , 1922
W. H. R. Rivers, Medicine, Magic and Religion , 1924
Marcel Mauss,
The Gift , 1925
Maurice Halbwachs , On Collective Memory , 1925
Franz Boas , Primitive Art , 1927
[11]
Bronisław Malinowski,
Sex and Repression in Savage Society , 1927
Margaret Mead ,
Coming of Age in Samoa , 1928
Franz Boas, Anthropology and Modern Life , 1928
Richard Thurnwald , Die menschliche Gesellschaft in ihren ethnosoziologischen Grundlagen , 1931–35 (German; not yet translated into English)
Ruth Benedict , Patterns of Culture , 1934
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[13]
Robert Lowie , The Crow Indians , 1935
Zora Neale Hurston ,
Mules and Men , 1935
Bronisław Malinowski,
Coral Gardens and Their Magic: A Study of the Methods of Tilling the Soil and of Agricultural Rites in the Trobriand Islands , 1935
E. E. Evans-Pritchard , Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande , 1937 (abridged edition published in 1976)
[11]
[12]
Leo Frobenius , African Genesis: Folk Tales and Myths of Africa , 1937
Johan Huizinga ,
Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture , 1938
Jomo Kenyatta ,
Facing Mount Kenya , 1938
Zora Neale Hurston, Tell My Horse , 1938
Wilhelm Schmidt , The Culture Historical Method of Ethnology , 1939
1940s and 1950s
Franz Boas, Race, Language and Culture , 1940
[11]
E. E. Evans-Pritchard,
The Nuer , 1940
[12]
Meyer Fortes and E. E. Evans-Pritchard,
African Political Systems , 1940
Melville J. Herskovits , The Myth of The Negro Past , 1941
Karl Polanyi ,
The Great Transformation , 1944
Ruth Benedict,
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword , 1946
[11]
Ernesto de Martino , Il mondo magico: Prolegomeni allo studio del magismo , 1948
Fei Xiaotong ,
From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society , 1948 (English translation: 1992)
Clyde Kluckhohn , Mirror for Man: The Relation of Anthropology to Modern Life , 1949
Tarak Chandra Das , Bengal Famine(1943) : As Revealed in a Survey of the Destitutes in Calcutta , 1949
Alfred L. Kroeber , The Nature of Culture , 1952
Laura Bohannan , Return to Laughter , 1954
[12]
Edmund Leach , Political Systems of Highland Burma: A Study of Kachin Social Structure , 1954
Claude Lévi-Strauss ,
Tristes Tropiques , 1955
[12]
Ralph Linton , The Tree of Culture , 1955 (posthumously)
Julian Steward , Theory of Culture Change: The Methodology of Multilinear Evolution , 1955
E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Nuer Religion , 1956
[11]
Georges Balandier , Ambiguous Africa: Cultures in Collision , 1957
Richard Hoggart ,
The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working-Class Life , 1957
Leslie White , The Evolution of Culture: The Development of Civilization to the Fall of Rome , 1959
Claude Lévi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology , 1958
Raymond Williams ,
Culture and Society , 1958
Alfred Métraux , Voodoo in Haiti , 1958
Fredrik Barth , Political Leadership Among Swat Pathans , 1959
C. P. Snow ,
The Two Cultures , 1959
1960s and 1970s
R. G. Lienhardt , Divinity and Experience: the Religion of the Dinka , 1961
[12]
Robert Lowie, Empathy: Or 'Seeing from Within' , 1960
Frantz Fanon ,
The Wretched of the Earth , 1961 (English translation: 1963)
Colin Turnbull ,
The Forest People , 1961
Claude Lévi-Strauss,
The Savage Mind , 1962 (English translation: 1966)
Clifford Geertz ,
Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia , 1963
Peter Worsley , The Third World , 1964
Max Gluckman , Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society , 1965
Mary Douglas ,
Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo , 1966
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Louis Dumont ,
Homo Hierarchicus , 1966
[12]
George Devereux , From Anxiety to Method in the Behavioral Sciences , 1967
Victor Turner , The Forest of Symbols , 1967
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Napoleon Chagnon , Yanomamö: The Fierce People , 1968
[11]
Joseph Campbell ,
The Flight of the Wild Gander , 1968
Fredrik Barth, Ethnic Groups and Boundaries , 1969
Victor Turner, The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure , 1969
Mary Douglas,
Natural Symbols , 1970
Gregory Bateson ,
Steps to an Ecology of Mind , 1972
H. R. Bernard and P. J. Pelto, Technology and Social Change , 1972
[12]
Pierre Bourdieu , Outline of a Theory of Practice , 1972
[12]
Clifford Geertz ,
The Interpretation of Cultures , 1973 (including "
Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight ")
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[12]
Ernest Becker ,
The Denial of Death , 1973
Giulio Angioni , Tre saggi sull'antropologia dell'età coloniale , 1973
Talal Asad , Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter , 1973
[12]
Marshall Sahlins , Stone Age Economics , 1974
Pierre Clastres ,
Society Against the State , 1974
John W. Cole and Eric Wolf,
The Hidden Frontier: Ecology and Ethnicity in an Alpine Valley , 1974 (republished in 1999 with a new introduction by Eric Wolf)
Henri Lefebvre , The Production of Space , 1974 (English translation: 1991)
Claude Meillassoux , Maidens, Meal and Money: Capitalism and the Domestic Community , 1975 (English translation: 1981)
Michel de Certeau , The Writing of History , 1975 (English translation: 1988)
Cornelius Castoriadis , The Imaginary Institution of Society , 1975
Roy Wagner , The Invention of Culture , 1975
Edward T. Hall ,
Beyond Culture , 1976
Marshall Sahlins, Culture and Practical Reason , 1976
Giulio Angioni, Sa laurera: il lavoro contadino in Sardegna , 1976
Marvin Harris ,
Cannibals and Kings , 1977
Jack Goody , The Domestication of the Savage Mind , 1977
Jeanne Favret-Saada , Les Mots, la mort, les sorts : la sorcellerie dans le bocage , 1977 (Deadly Words: Witchcraft in the Bocage , 1980)
Paul Rabinow , Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco , 1977
Hans Peter Duerr ,
Dreamtime: Concerning the Boundary between Wilderness and Civilization
Edward Said ,
Orientalism , 1978
Marvin Harris, Cultural Materialism: The Struggle for a Science of Culture , 1979
Bruno Latour and
Steve Woolgar ,
Laboratory Life , 1979
1980s
Steven Feld , Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weepings, Poetics and Sound in Kaluli Expression , 1982
Michelle Rosaldo , Knowledge and Passion: Notions of Self and Society among the Ilongot , 1980
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Lila Abu-Lughod , Veiled Sentiments , 1986
Ulf Hannerz , Exploring the City: Inquiries Toward an Urban Anthropology , 1980
George Lakoff and
Mark Johnson , Metaphors We Live By , 1980
Eric Wolf,
Europe and the People Without History , 1982
Maurice Godelier , The Making of Great Men , 1982
Nigel Barley , The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes From a Mud Hut , 1983
Benedict Anderson ,
Imagined Communities , 1983
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Eric Hobsbawm and
Terence Ranger (editors), The Invention of Tradition , 1983
Johannes Fabian , Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object , 1983
Louis Dumont, Essays on Individualism: Modern Ideology in Anthropological Perspective , 1983
Clifford Geertz , Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology , 1983
Ernest Gellner ,
Nations and Nationalism , 1983
Jack Goody, The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe , 1983
Maurice Godelier, The Mental and the Material , 1984
Sidney Mintz , Sweetness and Power , 1985
James Clifford and
George Marcus (editors), Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography , 1986
Philippe Descola , La Nature domestique : symbolisme et praxis dans l'écologie des Achuar , 1986
Clifford Geertz , Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author , 1988
Samir Amin , Eurocentrism , 1988
David Kertzer , Ritual, Politics, and Power , 1988
James Clifford, The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art , 1988
Bruce Kapferer ,
Legends of People, Myths of State , 1988
Adam Kuper , The Invention of Primitive Society: Transformations of an Illusion , 1988 (republished as an expanded and revised new edition, entitled The Reinvention of Primitive Society: Transformations of a Myth in 2005)
Marilyn Strathern , The Gender of the Gift: Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia , 1988
Brackette F. Williams , "A Class Act: Anthropology and the Race to Nation Across Ethnic Terrain", 1989
1990s
James Ferguson , The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development", Depoliticization and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho , 1990
Judith Butler ,
Gender Trouble , 1990
Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah , Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality , 1990
Bruno Latour,
We Have Never Been Modern , 1991 (English translation: 1993)
Donna Haraway , Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature , 1991
Donald Brown ,
Human Universals , 1991
Helena Norberg-Hodge ,
Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh , 1991
Sharlotte Neely , Snowbird Cherokees , 1991
Jan Assmann , Cultural Memory and Early Civilization: Writing, Remembrance, and Political Imagination , 1992 (English translation: 2011)
Marc Augé , Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity , 1992
Maurice Bloch , Prey into Hunter: The Politics of Religious Experience , 1992
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro , From the Enemy's Point of View: Humanity and Divinity in an Amazonian Society , 1992
Jeremy Coote and A. Shelton (eds), Anthropology, Art and Esthetics , 1992
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Mary Douglas,
Risk and Blame: Essays in Cultural Theory , 1992
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Annette B. Weiner,
Inalienable Possessions: The Paradox of Keeping-While-Giving , 1992.
Michael Taussig , Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses , 1993
Fredrik Barth, Balinese Worlds , 1993
Homi K. Bhabha , The Location of Culture , 1994
Bernard Stiegler , Technics and Time
Michel-Rolph Trouillot , Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History , 1995
John Brockman ,
The Third Culture , 1995
Raymond Firth , Religion: A Humanist Interpretation , 1996
Jack Goody, The East in the West , 1996
Italo Pardo, Managing Existence in Naples: Morality, Action and Structure , 1996
Hugh Gusterson , Nuclear Rites: a Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War , 1996
Arjun Appadurai , Modernity at Large , 1996
Anne Fadiman ,
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down , 1997
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James Clifford, Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century , 1997
Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson, Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science , 1997
Jeremy Narby ,
The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge , 1998
Stefan Helmreich, Silicon Second Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World , 1998
Aihwa Ong , Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality , 1999
2000s
Sally Merry, Colonizing Hawai'i: The cultural power of law , 2000
Clifford Geertz, Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics , 2000
Gordon Mathews, Global Culture/Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket , 2000
Patrick Tierney,
Darkness in El Dorado , 2000
Tierney's book was determined to be deliberately fraudulent.
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Tim Ingold , The perception of the environment: essays on livelihood, dwelling and skill , 2000
Italo Pardo, Morals of Legitimacy: Between Agency and System , 2000
Frans de Waal ,
The Ape and the Sushi Master , 2001
William Ray, The Logic of Culture: Authority and Identity in the Modern Era , 2001
Vassos Argyrou, Anthropology and the Will to Meaning: A Postcolonial Critique , 2002
Jone Salomonsen,
Enchanted Feminism: The Reclaiming Witches of San Francisco , 2002
Talal Asad , Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity , 2003
Jean Rouch , Cine-Ethnography , 2003
Theodore C. Bestor ,
Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World , 2004
Janet Carsten, After Kinship , 2004
[12]
Aihwa Ong and Stephen J. Collier, Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems , 2004
Anna L. Tsing , Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection , 2005
Marcel Detienne , The Greeks and Us: A Comparative Anthropology of Ancient Greece , 2005 (English translation: 2007)
Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan , Anthropology and development. Understanding contemporary social change , 2005
Nicholas Wade ,
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors , 2006
Guha Abhijit , Land, Law, and the Left: the Saga of Disempowerment of the Peasantry in the Era of Globalisation]] 2007
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Philippe Descola, Beyond Nature and Culture , 2005 (English translation: 2013)
Paige West , Conservation is our Government now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea , 2006
Veena Das , Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary , 2007
Andrew Apter , Beyond Words: Discourse and Critical Agency in Africa , 2007
Paul Rabinow, Marking Time: On the Anthropology of the Contemporary , 2008
Eugene S. Hunn , A Zapotec Natural History , 2008
Johannes Fabian, Ethnography as Commentary: Writing from the Virtual Archive , 2008
Stefan Helmreich, Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas , 2009
Giuliana B. Prato (editor), Beyond Multiculturalism , 2009
Neni Panourgiá, Dangerous Citizens: The Greek Left and the Terror of the State , 2009
Philippe Bourgeois and Jeff Schonberg, Righteous Dopefiend , 2009
2010s
Margaret Lock and Vinh-Kim Nguyen, An Anthropology of Biomedicine , 2010
Ulf Hannerz, Anthropology's World: Life in a Twenty-First Century Discipline , 2010
Jesús Padilla Gálvez , Philosophical Anthropology. Wittgenstein's Perspective . Berlin, De Gruyter, 2010.
ISBN
9783110321555
[1] Review
[2]
David Graeber ,
Debt: The First 5000 Years , 2011
Tim Ingold , Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description , 2011
Alan Barnard, Social Anthropology and Human Origins , 2011
James D. Faubion, An Anthropology of Ethics , 2011
Maurice Bloch, Anthropology and the Cognitive Challenge , 2012
Jason Ānanda Josephson , The Invention of Religion in Japan, 2012
Neil L. Whitehead and
Michael Wesch (editors) Human No More: Digital Subjectivities, Unhuman Subjects, and the End of Anthropology , 2012
Eduardo Kohn , How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human , 2013
Italo Pardo and Giuliana B. Prato, Legitimacy. Ethnographic and Theoretical Insights , 2018
2020s
Italo Pardo and Giuliana B. Prato (editors), Urban Inequalities . 2021
Petra Kuppinger (editor), Emergent Spaces . 2022
Thematic bibliography
General introductions and histories
Eric Wolf , Anthropology , 1964
Adam Kuper, Anthropology and Anthropologists: The Modern British School , 1973 (3rd revised and enlarged edition, 1996)
Peter Just and John Monaghan, Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction , 2000
Alan Barnard, History and Theory in Anthropology , 2000
Thomas Hylland Eriksen , What is Anthropology? , 2004
Aleksandar Bošković , Other People's Anthropologies: Ethnographic Practice on the Margins , 2008
John S. Gilkeson, Anthropologists and the Rediscovery of America, 1886–1965 , 2010
Fredrik Barth, Andre Gingrich, Robert Parkin, and Sydel Silverman, One Discipline, Four Ways: British, German, French, and American Anthropology (The Halle Lectures), 2005
Ritual theory
Arnold van Gennep, The Rites of Passage , 1909
Émile Durkheim,
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life , 1912
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Sigmund Freud, Totem and Taboo , 1913
Erving Goffman , Interaction Ritual , 1967
Victor Turner, The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure , 1969
David Kertzer, Ritual, Politics, and Power , 1988
Bruce Kapferer, A Celebration of Demons , 1991
Catherine Bell , Rituals : Perspectives and Dimensions , 1997
Mario Perniola , Ritual Thinking: Sexuality, Death, World , 2000
Philippe Buc , The Dangers of Ritual: Between Early Medieval Texts and Social Scientific Theory , 2001
Robert N. McCauley and
E. Thomas Lawson , Bringing Ritual to Mind: Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms , 2002
Steven Heine and
Dale S. Wright (editors), Zen Ritual: Studies of Zen Buddhist Theory in Practice , 2008
Cyber anthropology
Sherry Turkle , The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit , 1984
Arturo Escobar , "Welcome to Cyberia: Notes on the Anthropology of Cyberculture", 1994
Sherry Turkle ,
Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet , 1995
Stefan Helmreich, Silicon Second Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World , 1998
Tom Boellstorff , Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human , 2008
Bonnie Nardi , My Life as a Night Elf Priest. An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft , 2010. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Daniel Miller , Tales from Facebook , 2011
Alexander Knorr, Cyberanthropology (in German ), 2011
Neil L. Whitehead and
Michael Wesch (editors) Human No More: Digital Subjectivities, Unhuman Subjects, and the End of Anthropology , 2012
Christine Hine , Ethnography for the Internet: Embedded, Embodied and Everyday , 2015. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Design anthropology
Wendy Gunn and Jared Donovan (eds), Design and Anthropology , 2012
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Wendy Gunn, Ton Otto and Rachel Charlotte Smith (eds), Design Anthropology: Theory and Practice , 2013
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Ecological anthropology
Julian Steward, Theory of Culture Change: The Methodology of Multilinear Evolution , 1955
William Balée , Cultural Forests of the Amazon: A Historical Ecology of People and Their Landscapes , 2014
Economic anthropology
Marcel Mauss,
The Gift , 1925
Karl Polanyi ,
The Great Transformation , 1944
Marshall Sahlins, Stone Age Economics , 1974
Claude Meillassoux, Maidens, Meal and Money , 1975
Italo Pardo, Managing Existence in Naples , 1996
Karen Ho , Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street , 2009
David Graeber ,
Debt: The First 5000 Years , 2011
Chris Hann and
Keith Hart , Economic Anthropology: History, Ethnography, Critique , 2011
Political anthropology
Meyer Fortes and
E. E. Evans-Pritchard ,
African Political Systems , 1940
James C. Scott ,
Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance , 1985
Ted Lewellen, Political Anthropology: An Introduction , 2003
Italo Pardo and Giuliana B. Prato (editors), Citizenship and the Legitimacy of Governance , 2010
Italo Pardo and Giuliana B. Prato, Legitimacy. Ethnographic and Theoretical Insights , 2018
Psychological anthropology
Charles W. Nuckolls, The Cultural Dialectics of Knowledge and Desire. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996
Lindholm, Charles, Culture and Identity. The history, theory, and practice of psychological anthropology , 2007
Robert, LeVine, Psychological Anthropology: A Reader on Self in Culture , 2010
Urban anthropology
Delany, Samuel R. (1999).
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue . New York, New York:
New York University Press .
ISBN
0-8147-1919-8 .
Ulf Hannerz, Exploring the City: Inquiries Toward an Urban Anthropology , 1980
Italo Pardo and Giulaina B. Prato (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Urban Ethnography , 2017
Italo Pardo and Giuliana B. Prato (editors), Urban Inequalities , 2021
Petra Kuppinger (editor), Emergent Spaces , 2022
Linguistic anthropology
Johann Gottfried Herder , Treatise on the Origin of Language , 1772
Wilhelm von Humboldt , On Language: On the Diversity of Human Language Construction and its Influence on the Mental Development of the Human Species , 1836
Edward Sapir , Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech , 1921
Benjamin Lee Whorf , Language, Thought and Reality , 1956 (published posthumously)
Roman Jakobson ,
On Linguistic Aspects of Translation , 1959
Lev Vygotsky , Thought and Language , 1962
Kenneth Lee Pike , Language in Relation to a Unified Theory of the Structure of Human Behaviour , 1967
Dell Hymes , Foundations in Sociolinguistics: An Ethnographic Approach , 1974
Brown, Penny B. & Levinson, Stephen C. Politeness: some Universals in Language Use. (1978) 1987
Gumperz, J.J. Discourse Strategies, 1982.
Robert M. W. Dixon , The Rise and Fall of Languages , 1997
Guy Deutscher , The Unfolding of Language: The Evolution of Mankind's Greatest Invention , 2005
Biological anthropology
Biological anthropology is traditionally conceived of as part of the North American four-field approach. In some universities, however, the subject has repositioned itself as human evolutionary biology . In Europe, it is sometimes taught as an individual subject at college level or as part of the discipline of biology. Its methods are informed by evolutionary biology, hence the adjunct biological . Since 1993, the Biological Anthropology Section of the
American Anthropological Association has awarded the W.W. Howells Book Award in Biological Anthropology.
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Charles Darwin ,
On the Origin of Species , 1859
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Thomas Henry Huxley ,
Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature , 1863
Alfred Russel Wallace ,
The Malay Archipelago , 1869
Charles Darwin,
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex , 1871
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Rudolf Virchow , The Freedom of Science in the Modern States , 1877
Rudolf Virchow, Anthropological Papers , 1891
Desmond Morris ,
The Naked Ape , 1967
Jane Goodall , In the Shadow of Man , 1971
Richard Dawkins ,
The Selfish Gene , 1976
E. O. Wilson ,
On Human Nature , 1979
Stephen Jay Gould ,
The Mismeasure of Man , 1981
Wade Davis ,
The Serpent and the Rainbow , 1985
Robert Boyd and
Peter J. Richerson , Culture and the Evolutionary Process , 1985
Jared Diamond ,
The Third Chimpanzee , 1991
Helen Fisher , Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray , 1992
Jared Diamond,
Guns, Germs, and Steel , 1998
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E. O. Wilson,
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge , 1998
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy , Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants and Natural Selection , 1999
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Paul Farmer , Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor , 2003
Jared Diamond,
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed , 2005
Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd, Not by Genes Alone , 2005
Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth, Baboon Metaphysics , 2007
Steven Pinker ,
The Stuff of Thought: Language As a Window Into Human Nature , 2007
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Michael Tomasello , Origins of Human Communication , 2008
Gregory Cochran and
Henry Harpending , The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilizations Accelerated Human Evolution , 2009
Richard Wrangham ,
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human , 2009
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Jared Diamond,
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? , 2012
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E. O. Wilson,
The Social Conquest of Earth , 2012
Frans de Waal , The Bonobo and the Atheist , 2013
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Archaeology
Archaeological anthropology is traditionally conceived of as part of the North American four-field approach. With the four-field approach being questioned for its orthodoxy, the subject has gained considerable independence in recent years and some archaeologists have rejected the label anthropology . In Europe, the subject maintains closer connections to history and is simply conceived of as archaeology with a distinct research focus and methodology.
C. W. Ceram ,
Gods, Graves and Scholars , 1949
Steven Mithen , The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science , 1996
Julian Thomas , Time, Culture and Identity: An Interpretive Archaeology , 1996
Chris Gosden, Archaeology & Anthropology: A Changing Relationship , 1999
Richard Bradley , An Archaeology of Natural Places , 2000
Alison Wylie , Thinking from Things: Essays in the Philosophy of Archaeology , 2002
Randall H. McGuire , Archaeology as Political Action , 2008
Archaeological theory
Hawkes, Christopher (1954).
"Archeological Theory and Method: Some Suggestions from the Old World" . American Anthropologist . 56 (2): 155–168.
doi :
10.1525/aa.1954.56.2.02a00660 .
Binford, Lewis R. (1962). "Archaeology as Anthropology". American Antiquity . 28 (2): 217–225.
doi :
10.2307/278380 .
JSTOR
278380 .
S2CID
162242910 .
Binford, Sally R. ;
Binford, Lewis R. , eds. (1968).
New Perspectives in Archeology . Chicago, IL: Aldine Publishing Company.
ISBN
978-0-202-33022-8 .
Clarke, David L. (1968). Analytical Archaeology . London: Methuen.
ISBN
0-416-42850-9 .
Clarke, David L. , ed. (1972). Models in Archaeology . London: Methuen.
ISBN
0-416-16540-0 .
Clarke, David L. (1973). "Archaeology: the loss of innocence". Antiquity . 47 (185): 6–18.
doi :
10.1017/S0003598X0003461X .
S2CID
34438511 .
Binford, Lewis R. , ed. (1977). For Theory Building in Archaeology . New York, NY: Academic Press.
ISBN
978-0-12-100050-9 .
Hodder, Ian , ed. (1982). Symbolic and Structural Archaeology . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
978-0-521-03550-7 .
Shanks, Michael ;
Tilley, Christopher (1993). Social Theory and Archaeology . Oxford: Polity Press.
ISBN
978-0-7456-0184-7 .
McGuire, Randall G. (1992). A Marxist Archaeology . San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
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Some points of reference in related disciplines
Anthropological research has exerted considerable influence on other disciplines such as
sociology ,
literary theory , and
philosophy . Conversely, contemporary anthropological discourse has become receptive to a wide variety of theoretical currents which in turn help to shape the cognitive identity of the subjects. Among the key publications from related disciplines that have advanced anthropological scholarship are:
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