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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

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See also: List of scholars of ethnology

Chronological bibliography

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From the beginnings to 1899

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1900s and 1910s

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1920s and 1930s

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1940s and 1950s

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1960s and 1970s

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1980s

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1990s

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2000s

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  • 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
  • Tim Ingold, The perception of the environment: essays on livelihood, dwelling and skill, 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[15]
  • 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

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  • 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

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Thematic bibliography

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General introductions and histories

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  • 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

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  • Arnold van Gennep, The Rites of Passage, 1909
  • Émile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, 1912[11]
  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Wendy Gunn and Jared Donovan (eds), Design and Anthropology, 2012[16][17]
  • Wendy Gunn, Ton Otto and Rachel Charlotte Smith (eds), Design Anthropology: Theory and Practice, 2013[18][19]

Ecological anthropology

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  • 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

Tarun Chhabra, The Toda Landscape: Explorations in Cultural Ecology, 2015. Harvard University Press (Harvard Oriental Series vol.79)

Economic anthropology

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Political anthropology

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Psychological anthropology

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Urban anthropology

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  • Ulf Hannerz, Exploring the City: Inquiries Toward an Urban Anthropology, 1980
  • Italo Pardo and Giuliana B. Prato (eds), Anthropology in the City: Methodology and Theory, 2016
  • 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

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Biological anthropology

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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.[20]

Archaeology

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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.

Archaeological theory

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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:

References

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  1. ^ "What is Anthropology?". American Anthropological Association. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  2. ^ "History and Mission". Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  3. ^ "L'Anthropologie". Association Française des Anthropologues. Archived from the original on 9 November 2012. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  4. ^ "What is Anthropology?". Discover Anthropology. Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  5. ^ Shore, Bradd (2011). "Unconsilience: Rethinking the Two-Cultures Conundrum in Anthropology". In Edward Slingerland and Mark Collard (ed.). Creating consilience: integrating the sciences and the humanities. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 140–158. ISBN 978-0-19-979439-3.
  6. ^ Boas, Franz (1904). "The History of Anthropology". Science. 20 (512): 513–524. Bibcode:1904Sci....20..513B. doi:10.1126/science.20.512.513. PMID 17797024.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ Kuper, Adam (1996). Anthropology and Anthropologists: the Modern British School (3rd ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-11895-8.
  9. ^ Wulf, Christoph (2013). Anthropology: A Continental Perspective. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-92507-3.
  10. ^ a b c d e Kuklick 2008
  11. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Jones 2010
  12. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology 2016
  13. ^ a b c d Tozzer 2016
  14. ^ Nicol, Caitrin. "Doctors Within Borders". The New Atlantis. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
  15. ^ "Buy Land, Law and the Left: Saga of Disempowerment of the Peasantry in the Era of Globalisation Book Online at Low Prices in India | Land, Law and the Left: Saga of Disempowerment of the Peasantry in the Era of Globalisation Reviews & Ratings - Amazon.in".
  16. ^ Pink, Sarah (2014-01-02). "Design and anthropology". Visual Studies. 29 (1): 109–110. doi:10.1080/1472586X.2014.863023. ISSN 1472-586X. S2CID 146709063.
  17. ^ Samuelsson, Marcus. "Book Review: Wendy Gunn and Jared Donovan (eds), Design and AnthropologyGunnWendyDonovanJared (eds), Design and Anthropology. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. 284 pp. ISBN 9781409421580 (hbk) £65.00". Qualitative Research. 15 (1): 125–126. doi:10.1177/1468794114520889. S2CID 147646929.
  18. ^ Magee, Siobhan (2015-11-01). "Design Anthropology: Theory and Practice". Journal of Design History. 28 (4): epv032. doi:10.1093/jdh/epv032. ISSN 0952-4649.
  19. ^ Foster, Nancy Fried (2015-08-01). "Design Anthropology: Theory and Practice. Wendy Gunn, Ton Otto, and Rachel Charlotte Smith, eds. London: PB - Bloomsbury , 2013. 284 pp". American Ethnologist. 42 (3): 566–567. doi:10.1111/amet.26_12146. ISSN 1548-1425.
  20. ^ a b "W. W. Howells Book Award". 2014-01-19. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  21. ^ a b c d e "Suggested readings". Anthropology. University College London. Retrieved 15 September 2016.

Further reading

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