Let's play humiliation
HAU FB page shared this list of 30 essential books in anthropology compiled by AllegraLab. The original post is here.
So if you are up for a round of humiliation, do not hesitate to share your ignorance. Mine is marked in bold and makes two thirds of the list.
- Geertz, C., 1973, The Interpretation of Cultures. Basic Books.
- Lévi-Strauss, C., 1955, Tristes tropiques. Librairie Plon.
- Malinowski, B., 1922, Argonauts of the Western Pacific. E.P. Dutton.
- Mauss, M., 1950[1923-24], Essai sur le don. Forme et raison de l’échange dans les sociétés archaïques. Presses Universitaires de France.
- Appadurai, A., 1996, Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. University of Minnesota Press.
- Boas, F., 1911, The Mind of Primitive Man. MacMillan.
- Tylor, E.B., 1871, Primitive Culture. John Murray.
- Mead, M., 1928, Coming of Age in Samoa. William Morrow and Co.
- Evans-Pritchard, E.E., 1937, Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande. Oxford University Press.
- Douglas, M., 1966, Purity and Danger. Routledge & Kegan Paul.
- Strathern, M., 1988, The Gender of the Gift: Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia. University of California Press.
- Lévi-Strauss, C., 1947, Les Structures élémentaires de la parenté. Mouton.
- Morgan, L.H., 1877, Ancient Society. MacMillan.
- Das, V., 2006, Life and Words. Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary. University of California Press.
- Abu-Lughod, L., 1986, Veiled Sentiments. Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society. University of California Press.
- Barth, F., ed., 1969, Ethnic Groups and Boundaries. The Social Organization of Culture Difference. Waveland Press.
- Benedict, R., 1934, Patterns of Culture. Houghton Mifflin.
- Bateson, G., 1936, Naven. A Survey of the Problems Suggested by a Composite Picture of the Culture of a New Guinea Tribe Drawn from Three Points of View. Stanford University Press.
- Favret-Saada, J., 1977, Les mots, la mort, les sorts: la sorcellerie dans le bocage. Gallimard.
- Wolf, E.R., 1982, Europe and the People without History. University of California Press.
- Shostak, M., 1981, Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman. Harvard University Press.
- Girard, R., 1972, La violence et le sacré. Grasset.
- Clifford, J., Marcus, G.E., eds., 1986, Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. University of California Press.
- Dumont, L., 1966, Homo Hierarchicus. Essai sur le système des castes. Gallimard.
- Scheper-Hughes, N., 1992, Death without Weeping. The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil. University of California Press.
- Sahlins, M., 1972, Stone Age Economics. Aldine de Gruyter.
- Bloch, M.E.F., 1998, How We Think They Think: Anthropological Approaches to Cognition, Memory, and Literacy. Westview Press.
- Nader, L., 1990, Harmony Ideology. Justice and Control in a Zapotec Mountain Village. Stanford University Press.
- Tambiah, S.J., 1990, Magic, Science, Religion and the Scope of Rationality. Cambridge University Press.
- Gluckman, M., 1955, The Judicial Process among the Barotse of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia). Manchester University Press.
Pretty humiliating, right...?
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