Books Available in the Bookstore (Fall 2011)

Multiple copies of these books are also available on reserve in the library. See Course Reserve List for listing of books on reserve by week.

See Class Schedule for listings of specific required and supplementary readings from these books, as well as articles on reserve in folders in the library.

Week One

  • Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Cultures. NY: BasicBooks, 1973.

Week Two

  • Basso, Keith. Portraits of the Whiteman. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1979.

Week Three

  • Boas, Franz. Race, Language and Culture, 1948 (1932). (Only a few copies).
  • Malinowski, Bronislaw. Argonauts of the Western Pacific. Prospect Heights: Waveland Press, Inc., 1984(1922).

Weeks Four-Five

  • Boas, Franz. Race, Language and Culture, 1948 (1932). (Only a few copies).
  • Sapir, Edward. Edward Sapir: Selected Writings in Language, Culture, and Personality, (only a few copies).
  • Lowie, Robert. The Crow Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990(1935).

Week Six

  • Durkheim, Emile. Elementary Forms of Religious Life. Fields translation (Do not use the Swain translation). New York: the Free Press, 1995 (1912).

Week Seven

  • Mauss, Marcel. The Gift. W.D. Halls, trans. London: Routledge, 1990[1950].
  • Malinowski, Bronislaw. Argonauts of the Western Pacific. Prospect Heights: Waveland Press, Inc., 1984(1922).

Week Eight

  • Evans-Pritchard, E. E. The Nuer. New York: Oxford University Press, 1969(1940).

Week Nine

  • Levi-Strauss, Claude. The Savage Mind. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, In bookstore and on book reserve.

Week Ten

  • Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Cultures. NY: BasicBooks, 1973. (a few copies)
  • Turner, Victor. The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual, Ithaca: Cornell University Press,

Week Twelve

  • Ortner, Sherry. Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996

Week Thirteen

  • Tsing, Anna. In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993
  • Tsing, Anna. 2005. Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

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