100 of the Most Influential Ethnographies and Anthropology Texts

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Anthropology Titles at University Publishers

Anthropology Book Prizes

• J.I. Staley Prize

• Sharon Stephens Book Prize

• Senior Book Prize

• The Diana Forsythe Prize

• Leeds Award in Urban Anthropology

• Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing
• Chicago Prize in Folklore

• Margaret Mead Award

• Gregory Bateson Book Prize

• Robert B Textor and Family Prize

Stephan Helmreich (2010)

Stories in the Time of Cholera

Charles Briggs (201o)

Veena Das (2006)

Anna Tsing (2005)

Cultural Intimacy

Michael Herzfeld (2005)

Fiscal Disobedience

Janet Roitman (2005)

João Biehl (2005)

Politics of Piety

Saba Mahmood (2004)

Formations of the Secular

Talal Asad (2003)

Anthropos Today

Paul Rabinow (2003)

On the Postcolony

Achille Mbembe (2001)

Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism

J&J Comaroff ed. (2001)

The Network Inside Out

Annelise Riles (2001)

Available Light

Clifford Geertz (2000)

1990

Flexible Citizenship

Aihwa Ong (1999)

Ethnography through Thick and Thin

George Marcus (1998)

Essays on the Anthropology of Reason

Paul Rabinow (1997)

Culture, Power, Place

Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson (1997)

Modernity at Large

Arjun Appadurai (1996)

Citizen and Subject

Mahmood Mamdani (1996)

Wisdom Sits in Places

Keith Basso (1996)

A Space by the Side of the Road

Kathleen Stewart (1996)

Purity and Exile

Liisa Malkki (1994)

Flexible Bodies

Emily Martin (1994)

The Nation and its Fragments

Partha Chatterjee (1993)

Mimesis and Alterity

Michael Taussig (1993)

Death Without Weeping

Nancy Scheper-Hughes (1992)

Simians, Cyborgs, and Women

Donna Haraway (1991)

Magic, Science, Religion, and the Scope of Rationality

Stanley Tambiah (1990)

1980

Works and Lives

Clifford Geertz (1988)

Shaminism, Colonialism

Michael Taussig (1987)

The Predicament of Culture

James Clifford (1988)

Writing Culture

James Clifford and George Marcus ed. (1986)

Veiled Sentiments

Lila Abu-Lughod (1986)

Sweetness and Power

Syndney Mintz (1986)

The Anthropology of Experience

Victor Turner & Edward Bruner eds. (1986)

The Social Life of Things

Arjun Appaudurai (1986)

Tuhami: Portrait of a Moroccan

Vincent Crapanzano (1985)

Local Knowledge

Clifford Geertz (1983)

Europe and the People without History

Eric Wolf (1982)

Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture

Arthur Klaeinman (1981)

Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities

Marshall Sahlins (1981)

1970

Laboratory Life

Bruno Latour (1979)

Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco

Paul Rabinow (1977)

Perspectives in Marxist Anthropology

Maurice Bloch (1977)

The Invention of Culture

Roy Wagner (1975)

Reinventing Anthropology

Dell Hymes (ed.) (1974)

Stone Age Economics

Marshall Sahlins (1974)

Women, Culture, and Society

Louise Lamphere and Michelle Rosaldo (1974)

Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter

Talal Asad (1973)

Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches

Marvin Harris (1973)

The Interpretation of Cultures

Clifford Geerz (1973)

Steps Toward an Ecology of Mind

Gregory Bateson (1972)

1960

American Kinship

David Schneider (1968)

Race, Culture, and Evolution

George Stocking (1968)

The Forest of Symbols

Victor Turner (1967)

Homo Hierarchicus

Louis Dumont (1967)

Purity and Danger

Mary Douglas (1966)

The Raw and the Cooked

Claude Lévi-Strauss (1964)

The Savage Mind

Claude Lévi-Strauss (1962)

1950

Structural Anthropology

Claude Lévi-Strauss (1958)

Tristes Tropiques

Claude Lévi-Strauss (1955)

Custom and Conflict in Africa

Max Gluckman (1955)

Political Systems of Highland Burma

Edmund Leach (1954)

Structure and Function in Primitive Societies

A.R. Radcliffe-Brown (1952)

1940

Selected Writings in Language, Culture, and Personality

Edward Sapir (1949)

The Chrysanthemum and the Sword

Ruth Benedict (1946)

The Dynamics of Clanship among the Tallensi

Meyer Fortes (1945)

E.E. Evans-Pritchard (1940)

1930

Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande

E.E. Evans-Pritchard (1937)

Raymond Firth (1936)

Gregory Bateson (1936)

Patterns of Culture

Ruth Benedict (1934)

Robert Redfield (1930)

1920

Coming of Age in Samoa

Margaret Mead (1928)

Marcel Mauss (1923)

Argonauts of the Western Pacific

Bronislaw Malinowski (1922)

The Andaman Islanders

Radcliffe-Brown (1922)

1910

Kinship and Social Organization

W.H.R. Rivers (1914)

The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

Emile Durkheim (1912)

Totem and Taboo

Sigmund Freud (1912)

How Natives Think

Lucien Lévi-Bruhl (1910)

1900

The Rites of Passage

Arnold Van Gennep (1906)

1890

The Golden Bough

James Frazer (1890)

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Return to Laughter

Laura Bohannan (1954)

Stranger and Friend

Hortense Powdermaker (1966)