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.
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
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
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)
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.[22]
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.
McGuire, Randall G. (1992). A Marxist Archaeology. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
ISBN978-0-12-484078-2.
Renfrew, Colin; Zubrow, Ezra B.W., eds. (1994). The Ancient Mind: Elements of Cognitive Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
ISBN978-0-521-45620-3.
Tilley, Christopher (1997). A Phenomenology of Landscape: Places, Paths and Monuments. Oxford: Berg.
ISBN978-1-85973-076-8.
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:
^"L'Anthropologie". Association Française des Anthropologues. Archived from
the original on 9 November 2012. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
^"What is Anthropology?". Discover Anthropology. Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
^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.
ISBN978-0-19-979439-3.
^Segal, Daniel A.; Yanagisako, Sylvia J., eds. (2005). Unwrapping the Sacred Bundle: Reflections on the Disciplining of Anthropology. Durham: Duke University Press.
ISBN978-0-8223-8684-1.
^Kuper, Adam (1996). Anthropology and Anthropologists: the Modern British School (3rd ed.). London: Routledge.
ISBN978-0-415-11895-8.
^Wulf, Christoph (2013). Anthropology: A Continental Perspective. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
ISBN978-0-226-92507-3.
^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.
S2CID147646929.
^Magee, Siobhan (2015-11-01). "Design Anthropology: Theory and Practice". Journal of Design History. 28 (4): epv032.
doi:
10.1093/jdh/epv032.
ISSN0952-4649.
^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.
ISSN1548-1425.
Kuklick, Henrika (2008). A new history of anthropology. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub.
ISBN9780470766217.
"Reading list". Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology. Oxford University. Archived from
the original on 30 October 2012. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
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.
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
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
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)
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.[22]
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.
McGuire, Randall G. (1992). A Marxist Archaeology. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
ISBN978-0-12-484078-2.
Renfrew, Colin; Zubrow, Ezra B.W., eds. (1994). The Ancient Mind: Elements of Cognitive Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
ISBN978-0-521-45620-3.
Tilley, Christopher (1997). A Phenomenology of Landscape: Places, Paths and Monuments. Oxford: Berg.
ISBN978-1-85973-076-8.
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:
^"L'Anthropologie". Association Française des Anthropologues. Archived from
the original on 9 November 2012. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
^"What is Anthropology?". Discover Anthropology. Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
^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.
ISBN978-0-19-979439-3.
^Segal, Daniel A.; Yanagisako, Sylvia J., eds. (2005). Unwrapping the Sacred Bundle: Reflections on the Disciplining of Anthropology. Durham: Duke University Press.
ISBN978-0-8223-8684-1.
^Kuper, Adam (1996). Anthropology and Anthropologists: the Modern British School (3rd ed.). London: Routledge.
ISBN978-0-415-11895-8.
^Wulf, Christoph (2013). Anthropology: A Continental Perspective. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
ISBN978-0-226-92507-3.
^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.
S2CID147646929.
^Magee, Siobhan (2015-11-01). "Design Anthropology: Theory and Practice". Journal of Design History. 28 (4): epv032.
doi:
10.1093/jdh/epv032.
ISSN0952-4649.
^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.
ISSN1548-1425.
Kuklick, Henrika (2008). A new history of anthropology. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub.
ISBN9780470766217.
"Reading list". Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology. Oxford University. Archived from
the original on 30 October 2012. Retrieved 14 March 2013.