I Want to be an Anthropologist
I got a few books on anthropology, either from friends or my own budget. I want to know if the books make sense as a collection, or direction for a social anthropology masters. Is my collection directionless, or is it a valuable archive? Anything you would add? I really love the large regional monographs and ethnographies. Christopher Carr's books are probably some of my favorite. I love the format of Zuni Origins. Large monographs are the most fun for me. I want to know about decentralized gift economies without coercive leadership, and why sometimes that doesn't happen. I talked with an anthropologist and he said I should read more overview stuff. I am unsure of the difference in value between old and new anthropological works. I have not read all of this! I love anarchist anthropologists. I don't know what an anthropologists library usually looks like.
Against His-Story, Against Leviathan! - Fredy Perlman
A Pueblo Social History - Ware
A Spirit of Resistance - Dowd
Against the Grain - Scott
Ancient Maya: The Rise and Fall of a Rainforest Civilization - Arthur Demarest
Anthropology and Ethics - Edel and Edel
Archeologies of Sexuality - Schmidt and Voss
Becoming Hopi: A History - Wesley Bernardini, Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa, Gregson Schachner, and Leigh J. Kuwanwisiwma
Both Sides of the Bullpen - McPherson
Breaking the Maya Code - Coe
Bullshit Jobs - David Graeber
Changing Ones - Roscoe
Collapse - Jared Diamond
Conquest of Mexico - Prescott
Contributions to Anthropology: Interior Peoples of N. Alaska - Robert Hall (ed.)
Cortez and Montezuma - Collis
Crooked Deals and Broken Treaties - John Tully.
Debt: The First 5,000 Years - David Graeber
Direct Action: An Ethnography - David Graeber
Encountering Hopewell - Brian G. Redmond and Bret J. Ruby (eds.)
Environmental and Cultural Behavior - Vayda
Ethnography of Santa Clara Pueblo - W.W. Hill
Europe and the People Without History - Wolf
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology - David Graeber
From Child To Adult - Middleton
Gathering Hopewell: Society, Ritual, and Ritual Interaction - Christopher Carr and D. Troy Case
Gods and Rituals - Middleton
History Manner and Customs of the Indian Nations - Heckweleder
Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks - Hancock (2026)
Images and Symbols - Eliade
Incindents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yukatan - Stephens
Indian Givers - Jack Weatherford
Isha - Kroeber
Law and Warfare - Bohannan
Mambu - Burridge
Man and Time - J.B. Priestley
Many Faces of Gender - Frink
Many Faces of Gender - Sandra E. Hollimon (ed.)
Maya Archeology - Peabody Museum Museum Papers volume 61
Maya Explorer - Hagen
Mutual Aid - Kropotkin
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution - Peter Kropotkin
Myth and Cosmos - Middleton
Myth and Reality - Eliade
Native Americans of the Cuyahoga Valley - Bobel and Whitman
New Perspectives on the Pueblos - Ortiz
Ohio Archeology - Lepper
Patterns in Comparative Religion - Eliade
Patterns of Culture - Benedict
Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions - Humbolt
Personalities and Cultures - Hunt
Perspectives in Marxist Anthropology - Maurice Godelier
Political Anthropology - Kurtz
Popol Vuh - Tedlock
Prescott - The Portable Viking Library
Primate Visions - Haraway
Reclaiming Two-Spirits - Gregory D. Smithers
Seeing Like a State - Scott
Shamanism - Eliade
Smoke From Their Fires: Life of a Kwakiutl Chief - Clellan S. Ford
Social Process In Maya Prehistory - Norman Hammond (ed.)
Society Against the State - Clastres
Society Against the State - Pierre Clastres
Southwest Indian Ritual Drama - Frisbie
Stone Age Economics - Marshall Sahlins
Tecumseh and the Prophet - Cozzens
The Annals of the Cakchiquels - Recinos and Goetz
The Art of Not Being Governed - Scott
The Aztecs - Rise and Fall of an Empire
The Beautiful and the Dangerous - Barbara Tedlock
The Beautiful and the Dangerous - Tedlock
The Cheyenne Way - Llewellyn and E. Hoebel
The Chorti Indians of Guatemala - Charles Wisdom
The Cliff Dwellers of the Mesa Verde - Gustaf Nordenskiöld
The Colonizer and the Colonized - Albert Memmi
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity - David Graeber and David Wengrow
The Discover and Conquest of Mexico - Castillo
The Great Law and the Longhouse - William N. Fenton
The Great Temple of Tenochtitlan - Broda
The History of Money - Jack Weatherford
The Indians of Texas in 1830 - Jean-Louis Berlandier
The Interpretation of Culture - Geertz
The Last of the Incas - Hyams and Ordish
The Life of the Indigenous Mind - Martinez
The Livelihood of Man - Karl Polanyi
The Mexican National Museum of Anthropology - Bernal
The Mysterious Maya - National Geographic
The Myth of the Eternal Return - Eliade
The Mythology of Mexico and Central America - Bierhorst
The Netsilik Eskimo - Balikci
The Nuer - E.E. Evans-Pritchard
The Other Trail of Tears - Mary Stockwell
The Raw and the Cooked - Strauss
The Savage Mind - Strauss
The Scioto Hopewell and Their Neighbors - D. Troy Case and Christopher Carr
The Spirit and the Flesh - Walter L. Williams
The Story of a Tlingit Community - Laguna
The Story of Decipherment - Pope
The Tewa World - Alfonso Ortiz
The True History of the Conquest of Mexico - Castillo
The Two and the One - Eliade
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World - David Graeber
The World of Goods: Towards an Anthropology of Consumption - Douglass and Isherwood
The World of the Maya - Hagen
The World Until Yesterday - Jared Diamond
The Zuni Man-Woman - Will Roscoe
To Make My Name Good: A Reexamination of the Southern Kwakiutl Potlatch - Philip Drucker and Robert F. Heizer
Trade and Market in Early Empire - Karl Polanyi
Tribal and Peasant Economies - Dalton
Tristes Tropiques - Claude Lévi-Strauss
Tsimshian Texts - Franz Boas
We Talk, You Listen - Deloria
Yoga - Eliade
Yuman Tribes of the Gila River - Leslie Spier
Zinacantan: A Maya Community - Evon Z. Vogt
Zuni Origins: Toward a New Synthesis of Southwestern Archaeology