A History of Anthropology

A Graduate Seminar at the University of Kansas

Reading List

There is no textbook for this course. All readings will be available near the photocopy machine in the Dept. of Anthropology office (622 Fraser Hall). Please be sure to allow adequate time to read each of the selections prior to its discussion in class. Students will be held responsible for all of the reading material.

Asad, Talal

1973 Anthropology & the Colonial Encounter. London: Ithaca Press.

Bartholomew, George and Joseph Birdsell

1953 Ecology and the protohominids, American Anthropologist 55: 481-498.

Benedict, Ruth

1930 Psychological Types in the Cultures of the Southwest. Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Congress of Americanists (572-81).

1948 Anthropology and the Humanities. American Anthropologist 50(4):585-593.

Binford, Lewis R.

1964 A Consideration of Archaeological Research Design. American Antiquity. 29:425-441.

1965 Archaeological systematics and the study of culture process. American Antiquity 31:203-210.

Boas, Franz

1912 Changes in Bodily Form of Descendants of Immigrants, Columbia University Press, pp.64-77.

1919 Letter to The Nation V.109, p.797. [Published under the headline "Scientists as Spies".) Reprinted in A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping American Anthropology, 1883-1911, George W. Stocking, Jr. (ed.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp.336-337.

1928 What is anthropology? In: Anthropology and Modern Life, Dover Press, pp.11-62.

1968 Selections reprinted in Race, Language and Culture (18-27; 243-259; 379-383; 270-280; 446-

450)

[1915) Modern Populations of America" Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Americanists, Washington. pp.569-575

[1932) The Aims of Anthropological Research" Science N.S., vol.76 pp.605-13

[1895) The Growth of the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl" Report of the US. National Museum for 1895 pp.660-664

[1896] The Limitations of the Comparative Method of Anthropology" Science N.S. vol.4 pp.901-908

[1933] The Serpent in Kwakiutl Religion" Deutsche Literaturzeitung pp.1182-1186

Boyd, William C.

1958 Genetics and the races of man. In: Readings on Race, edited by Stanley M. Garn, Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, Illinois (1968).

Brues, Alice M.

1954 Selection and polymorphism in the A-B-O blood groups. American Journal of Physical Anthropology

12(4): 559-597.

Chagnon, Napoleon A., J.V. Neel, L. Weitkamp, H. Gershowitz, and M. Ayres

1970 The influence of cultural factors on the demography and pattern of gene flow from the Makiritare to the Yanomama Indians. American Journal of Phvsical Anthropology 32: 339-350.

Childe, V. Gordon

1929 The Danube in Prehistory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

1939 The Dawn of European Civilization (3rd edition). London: Kegan Paul.

1951 Man Makes Himself. New York: New American Library of World Literature.

1953 The constitution of archaeology as a science. In Science, Medicine and History, E.A. Underwood (ed.), pp.3-15. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Clarke, David

1968 Analytical Archaeology. London: Methuen.

Cushing, Frank Hamilton

1979 [1879-1884] Zuni: Selected Writings. Lincoln: Univ. Nebraska Press

Dart, Raymond A.

1925 Australopithecus africanus: The Man-Ape of South Africa, Nature, Vol.115.

Darwin, Charles and Alfred Wallace

1858 "On the tendency of species to form varieties; and on the perpetuation of varieties and species by natural means of selection". Read before the Linnean Society on July 1, 1858. Includes: I. "On the variation of organic beings in a state of nature: On the natural means of selection; on the comparison of domestic races and true species" by Charles Darwin; II. Abstract of a Letter from Charles Darwin to Professor Asa Gray of Boston, USA, dated Down, S September 1857; and III. "On the tendency of varieties to depart indefinitely from the original type" by Alfred Russell Wallace

1859 The Origin of Species, "Foreword" and "Introduction", pp. v-ix and 65-69, Avenul Books

Durkheim, Emile

1964 [1895] The Rules of Sociological Method. Glencoe: The Free Press

1984 [1898] The Division of Labor in Society. New York: The Free Press

Durkheim, Emile & Marcel Mauss

1963 [1903] Primitive Classification. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Eiseley, Loren

1958 Darwin's Century: Evolution and the Man Who Discovered It. Garden City: Doubleday.

Engels, Friedreich

1974 [1884, 1891] The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. (Prefaces to the First and Fourth editions), Chapter 1 New York International Publishers

Evans-Pritchard, E.E.

1951 Social Anthropology. London: Cohen & West.

1981 Comte (1798-1857) In A History of Anthropological Thought. London: Faber

Flannery, Kent V.

1968 Archeological systems theory and early Mesoamerica. In Anthropological Archeology in the Americas, B.J. Meggers (ed.), pp.67-87. Washington: Anthropological Society of Washington.

Freeman, Derek

1983 Margaret Mead and Samoa. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press

Fried, Morton H.

1967 The Evolution of Political Society. New York: Random House.

Frazer, James G.

1890 The Golden Bough: The Roots of Religion & Folklore. New York: Avenel

Garn, Stanley M.

1961 Geographical, local and micro-races: Race, 'Race' and Race*. In: Human Races, edited by Stanley M. Garn, Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Springfield, Illinois.

Gould, Stephen Jay

1979 Another look at Lamarck, New Scientist, 4 October, pp.38-40.

Hegel, G.

1878 [1837] Philosophy of History. London: George Bell & Sons

Hooton, E.A.

1926 Methods of racial analysis, Science LXII(1 621): 75-81.

Hulse, Frederick 5.

1957 Linguistic barriers to gene-flow: The blood-groups of the Yakima, Okanagon, and Swinomish Indians. American Journal of Phvsical Anthropology 15: 235-246.

Hurston, Zora Neale

1986 [1942) Dust Tracks on a Road. London: Virago.

Johnston, Francis E., and Setha M. Low

1984 Biomedical Anthropology: An Emerging Synthesis in Anthropology. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 27:215-227.

Kroeber, Alfred L.

1916 Zuñi potsherds. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum ofNatural History 1 8(1):7-37. New York.

1919 On the Principle of Order in Civilization as Exemplified by Changes of Fashion. American Anthropologist 21:253-63.

Leach, Edmund

1961 Levi-Strauss in the Garden of Eden. Paper presented at a joint meeting of the Division and the American Ethnological Society. New York Academy of Sciences Transactions]

Léry, Jean de

1990 [1578] History of a Voyage to the land of Brazil, otherwise called America. Berkeley: Univ. California.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

1969 [1949) The Elementary Structures of Kinship. Boston: Beacon Press.

1963 Structural Anthropology New York: Basic Books pp.31-80; 206-31

Lewis & Clark

1804 The Journals of Lewis & Clark. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Livingstone, Frank B.

1958 Anthropological implications of sickle cell gene distribution in West Africa. American Anthropologist

60: 533-562.

1962 On the non-existence of human races. Current Anthropology 3(3): 279-281.

Lowie, Robert

1937 Comparative Law. In The History of Ethnological Theory. New York: Rinehart

Lubbock, John [Lord Avebury]

1869 Pre-historic Times (2nd edition). London: Williams and Norgate.

Mair, Lucy

1962 Primitive Government. Harmondsworth: Penguin

Malinowski, Bronislaw

1961 [1 922} Argonauts of the Western Pacific New York: E. P. Dutton

1945 The Dynamics of Culture Change. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press

Mason, J. Alden

1943 Franz Boas as an Archaeologist. American Anthropologist. 45(3)2

Mayr, Ernst

1951 Taxonomic categories in fossil hominids, Cold Springs Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology 15:

109-119.

McKern, W.C.

1939 The Midwestern Taxonomic Method as an aid to archaeological culture study. American Antiquity 3:138-143.

Mead, Margaret

1928 Coming of Age in Samoa New York: Mentor.

1979 Anthropological Contributions to National Policies During & Immediately after World War II. In The Uses of Anthropology. Washington D.C.: AAA Publication.

Mendel, Gregor

1865 "Experiments in Plant Hybridization" Paper read at the February 8, 1865, at the meetings of the Brtinn Natural History Society. [Mendel, Gregor. 1866. Versuche tiber Plflanzenhybriden. Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn Db. IV für das Jahr 1865, Abhandlungen, 3-47.]

Montagu, M.F. Ashley

1941 The concept of race in the human species in the light of genetics. Journal of Human Heredity

23:243-247.

Morgan, Lewis Henry

1978 [1877) Ancient Society. Palo Alto: New York Labor News.

Needham, Rodney

1963 Introduction to Durkheim & Mauss' Primitive Classification. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Newman, Marshall T.

1953 The application of ecological rules to the racial anthropology of the aboriginal New World. American Anthropologist 55: 311-327.

Parson, Elsie Clews

1940 Relations Between Ethnology and Archaeology in the Southwest. American Antiquity. 5:214-20

Philips, Phillip and Gordon R Willey

1953 Method and Theory in American Archeology. American Anthropologist 55(5):615-633.

Quimby, George

1979 A Brief History of WPA Archaeology. In The Uses of Anthropology. Washington D.C.: AAA Publication.

Radcliffe-Brown, A.R.

1965 [1952] Structure and Function in Primitive Society. New York: The Free Press.

Richards, Audrey

1950 Some Types of Family Structure amongst the Central Bantu. In African Systems of Kinship and Marriage. London: KPI

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

1967 [1755] Discourse on the Origin & Foundation of lnequality among Mankind. New York:

Washington Square Press

Sahlins, Marshall D., and Elman R. Service (eds.)

1960 Evolution and Culture. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Service, Elman R.

1975 Origins of the State and Civilization. New York: Norton.

Shapiro, H.L.

1952 Revised version of UNESCO Statement on Race, American Journal of Phvsical Anthropology 10:

363-368.

Slocum, Sally

1975 Woman the Gatherer: Male Bias in Anthropology. In Toward an Anthropology of Women. New York: Monthly Review Press.

Spaulding, A.

1957 Review of Method & Theory in American Archeology. American Antiquity. 23:85-7

Spencer, Herbert

1860 The Social Organism. The Westminster Review.

Steward, Julian

1949 Cultural Causality and the Law: A Trial Formulation of the Development of Early Civilization. American Anthropologist 51:1-27.

1955 The Concept & Method of Cultural Ecology. In Theory of Culture Change. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Tambiah, S.J.

1985 Culture, Thought, and Social Action. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press

Taylor, Walter W.

1948 A Study of Archaeology. American Anthropological Association, Memoir 69. Menasha, Wisconsin.

Tylor, E.B.

1958 [1871] Primitive Culture New York: Harper & Bros.

Vico, Giambattista.

1948 [1744) The New Science of Giambattista Vico. Cornell: Cornell Univ. Press

Washburn, Sherwood L.

1951 The new physical anthropology, Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, Series II, Vol.13: 298-

304.

Washburn, S. & C.S. Lancaster

1968 The Evolution of Hunting. In Man the Hunter. Chicago: Aldine

Watson, J.D. and Crick, F.H.C.

1953 Molecular structure of nucleic acids, Nature 171(4356): 737-734.

Weiner, Annette

1976 Women of Value, Men of Renown. Austin: Univ. Texas Press.

Weiner, J.S.

1955 Excepts from The Piltdown Forgery, In: Adam or Ape, Schenkman, pp.327-348.

Wheat, Joe Ben

1967 A Paleo-Indian bison kill. Scientific American 216(1):44-52.

White, Leslie A.

1943 Energy and the Evolution of Culture. American Anthropologist 45:3:335-356.

Yalman, Nur

1967 'The Raw: the cooked: :Nature: Culture". In The Structural Study of Myth. London: Tavistock


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