Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter
Talal Asad
Anthropology
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Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences
George E. Marcus et al.
Argonauts of the Western Pacific
Bronisław Malinowski
Coming of Age in Samoa
Margaret Mead
Invitations to Love
Laura M. Ahearn
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Pierre Bourdieu
Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
Mary Douglas
The Dawn of Everything
David Graeber et al.
The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
Marcel Mauss
The Interpretation of Cultures
Clifford Geertz
The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People
E.E. Evans-Pritchard
The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure
Victor Turner
Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography
James Clifford et al.