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GREAT AND SIGNIFICANT BOOKS IN ANTHROPOLOGY |
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GREAT AND SIGNIFICANT BOOKS IN ANTHROPOLOGY |
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| FRANZ BOAS |
MARGARET MEAD
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Good Reading began puplication in 1947 and in 1990 issued the 23rd edition of the work. The purpose of Good Reading: is "to lead an increasing number of people to savor the great or significant books, both those that strive to light the dark places in our understanding of our complex world and our equally complex selves, and those that aim simply to delight." The following list of books in anthropology from Good Reading: A Guide for Serious Readers (23rd ed., 1985.) was compiled by Elizabeth Weatherford..
| Franz Boas | Race, Language and Culture. 1940 |
| John H. Bodley | Victims of Progress. 2nd ed. 1982 |
| Slenore Bowen (Laura Bohannon) | Return to Laughter. 1964 |
| C. Loring Brace & Ashley Montagu | Man's Evolution. 1965 |
| Joseph Campbell | Historical Atlas of World Mythology. 1988- |
| James Clifford | The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art. 1988 |
| Shelton S. Davis | Victims of the Miracle: Development and the Indians
of Brazil. 1977 |
| James Deetz | Invitation to Archeology. 1967 |
| Stanley Diamond | In Search of the Primative. 1972 |
| Janet Dolgin, David S.Kemnitzer, David M. Schneider | Symbolic Anthropology. 1977 |
| Mona Etienne, and Eleanor Leacock, eds. | Women and Colonization: Anthropological Perspectives. 1980 |
| Edward E. Evans-Pritchard | Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande. 1937 |
| Brian M. Fagan | Clash of Cultures. 1984 |
| Peter Farb | Word Play: Whay Happens When People Talk. 1974 |
| Peter Farb & George Armelagos | Cosuming Passions: The Anthropology of Eating. 1980 |
| Morris Freilich, ed. | The Pleasures of Anthropology. 1983 |
| Judith Friedlander | Being Indian in Hueyapan. 1975 |
| Clifford Geertz | The Interpretation of Cultures. 1973 |
| George Gmelch & Walter P. Zenner, eds. | Urban Life: Readings in Urban Anthropology. 2nd ed. 1988 |
| Nelson H.H. Graburn, ed. | Ethnic and Tourist Arts. 1977 |
| Edward Hall | The Hidden Dimension. 1966 |
| Michael Harner, ed. | Hallucinogens and Shaminism. 1973 |
| Marvin Harris | The Rise of Anthropological Theory. 1968 |
| Marvin Harris | Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witched. 1974 |
| Karl Heider | Ethnographic Film. 1976 |
| Dell Hymes, ed. | Reinventing Anthropology. 1973 |
| Richard Lee | The Kung San: Men, Women and Work in a Foraging Society. 1979 |
| Claude Levi-Strauss | Tristes Tropiques. 1955 |
| Claude Levi-Strauss | The View from Afar. 1987 |
| Nancy O. Lurie, ed. | Mountain Wolf Woman. 1961 |
| Bronislaw Malinowski | Argonauts of the Western Pacific. 1961 |
| George Marcus & Michael Fischer | Anthropology As Cultural Critique: An experimental Moment in the Human Sciences. 1986 |
| Marcel Mauss | The Gift. 1925 |
| Margaret Mead | Sex and Temterament in Three Primitive Societies. 1935 |
| Ashley Montagu, ed. | Frontiers of Anthropology. 1974 |
| Ashley Montagu, ed. | Learning Non-Agression. 1978 |
| Barbara G. Myerhoff | Peyote Hunt: The Sacred Journey of the Huichol Indians. 1974 |
| Charlotte M. Otten, ed. | Anthropology and Art. 1971 |
| Paul Rabinow | Reflections on Field Work in Morocco. 1977 |
| Paul Radin | The Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology. 1972 |
| Rayna Rapp Reiter, ed. | Toward an Anthropology of Women. 1975 |
| Abraham Rosman & Paula G. Rubel | The Tapestry of Culture. 2nd ed. 1985 |
| Jay Ruby, ed. | A Crack in the Mirror. 1981 |
| Marshall Sahlins | Stone Age Economics. 1972 |
| Marshall Sahlins | Islands of History. 1987 |
| Lawrence E. Sullivan | Icanchu's Drum: An Orientation to the Meaning of South American Religions. 1988 |
| Colin Turnbull | The Forest People. 1961 |
| Arnold Van Gennep | The Rights of Passage. 1909 |
| Norman E, Whitten, Jr. & John F. Szwed, eds. | Afro-American Anthropology. 1970 |
| Eric Wolf | Europe and the People Without History. 1982 |
| Sol Worth & John Adair | Through Navajo Eyes. 1973 |
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