Bibliography of anthropology

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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.^[1]^[2]^[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.^[6]^[7] Other academic traditions use less broad definitions, where one or more of these fields are considered separate, but related, disciplines.^[8]^[9]

Sociocultural anthropology[edit]

Chronological bibliography[edit]

Thematic bibliography[edit]

General Introductions and Histories[edit]

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[edit]

Arnold van Gennep, The Rites of Passage, 1909
Émile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, 1912
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
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[edit]

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
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

Ecological anthropology[edit]

Economic anthropology[edit]

Marcel Mauss, The Gift, 1925
Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation, 1944
Marshall Sahlins, Stone Age Economics, 1974
Claude Meillassoux, Maidens, Meal and Money, 1975
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[edit]

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

Psychological anthropology[edit]

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

Visual anthropology[edit]

Urban anthropology[edit]

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

Linguistic anthropology[edit]

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
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
R. 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[edit]

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 Prize in Biological Anthropology.^[13]

Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, 1859
Thomas Henry Huxley, Man's Place in Nature, 1863
Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, 1869
Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, 1871
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
E. O. Wilson, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, 1998
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants and Natural Selection, 1999
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
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
E. O. Wilson, The Social Conquest of Earth, 2012

Archaeology[edit]

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[edit]

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.
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.
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. ISBN 978-0-12-484078-2.
Renfrew, Colin; Zubrow, Ezra B.W., eds. (1994). The Ancient Mind: Elements of Cognitive Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-45620-3.
Tilley, Christopher (1997). A Phenomenology of Landscape: Places, Paths and Monuments. Oxford: Berg. ISBN 978-1-85973-076-8.

Some points of reference in related disciplines[edit]

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 subject(s). Among the key publications from related disciplines that have advanced anthropological scholarship are:

Anderson, Benedict (1983). Imagined Communities. London: Verso.
Butler, Judith (1990). Gender Trouble.
James, Paul (2006). Globalism, Nationalism, Tribalism: Bringing Theory Back In. London: Sage Publications.
Said, Edward (1978). Orientalism.

References[edit]

^ "What is Anthropology?". American Anthropological Association. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
^ "History and Mission". Royal Anthropological Institute. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
^ "L'Anthropologie". Association Française des Anthropologues. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
^ "What is Anthropology?". Discover Anthropology. Royal Anthropological Institute. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
^ Shore, Bradd (2011). "Unconsilience: Rethinking the Two-Cultures Conundrum in Anthropology". In Edward Slingerland and Mark Collard. Creating consilience: integrating the sciences and the humanities. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 140–158. ISBN 978-0-19-979439-3.
^ Boas, Franz (1904). "The History of Anthropology". Science 20 (512): 513–524. doi:10.1126/science.20.512.513.
^ Segal, Daniel A.; Yanagisako, Sylvia J., eds. (2005). Unwrapping the Sacred Bundle: Reflections on the Disciplining of Anthropology. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-8684-1.
^ Kuper, Adam (1996). Anthropology and Anthropologists: the Modern British School (3rd ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-11895-8.
^ Wulf, Christoph (2013). Anthropology: A Continental Perspective. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-92507-3.
^ Nicol, Caitrin. "Doctors Within Borders". The New Atlantis. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
^ "Preliminary report: The major allegations against Napoleon Chagnon and James Neel presented in Darkness in El Dorado by Patrick Tierney appear to be deliberately fraudulent." (PDF).
^ AAA Rescinds Acceptance of the El Dorado Report
^ "W. W. Howells Prize". Retrieved 14 March 2013.

Bibliography of anthropology

Contents

Sociocultural anthropology[edit]

Chronological bibliography[edit]

From the beginnings to 1899[edit]

1900s and 1910s[edit]

1920s and 1930s[edit]

1940s and 1950s[edit]

1960s and 1970s[edit]

1980s[edit]

1990s[edit]

2000s[edit]

2010s[edit]