I. Foundations

A. Enlightenment Social Philosophy

Ferguson, A. Essay on the History of Civil Society

Hume, D. Treatise on Human Nature

Hobbes, T. The Leviathan Kant, E. Critique of Pure Reason

Locke, J. Two Treatises on the Government

Machiavelli, N. The Prince

Montesquieu, Spirit of the Laws

Rousseau, J. J. Discourse on the Origins of Inequality and

Social Contract

Smith, A. Wealth of Nations

Vico, G. B. The New Science

B. Early 19th Century Social and Evolutionary Theory

Comte, A. Auguste Comte and Positivism

Darwin, C. The Origin of Species

De Gobineau, The Inequality of Races

Hegel, G. Phenomenology of Spirit

Malthus, T. Principles of Population Growth

Spencer, H. The Evolution of Society

II. Late 19th Century Social Evolutionary Theory

Morgan, L. H. Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity

Morgan, L. H. Ancient Society

Tylor, E. Primitive Society

Foustel de Coulanges, The Ancient City

Darwin, C. The Descent of Man

McLennan, Primitive Marriage

Maine, H Ancient Law

Frazer, J. The Golden Bough

Bachofen, Mother Right

Westermarck, History of Human Marriage

III. Foundations of 20th Century Social Theory

Durkheim, E. Suicide

Durkheim, E. The Division of Labor in Society

Durkheim, E. Rules of the Sociological Method

Durkheim, E. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

Durkheim & Mauss, Primitive Classification

Freud, S. Civilization and Its Discontents

Freud, S. Totem and Taboo

Freud, S. The Interpretation of Dreams

Marx, K. The German Ideology

Marx, K. Capital

Levy-Bruhl, L. Primitives and the Supernatural

Levy-Bruhl, L. How Natives Think

Mauss, M. The Gift

Mauss, M. General Theory of Magic

Mauss, M. Seasonal Variation of the Eskimo Weber, M. The

Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Weber, M. From Max Weber: Essays on Sociology (Gerth &

Mills eds.)

Weber, M. The Sociology of Religion

Van Gennep, A. The Rites of Passage

IV. American Cultural Anthropology

Bateson, G. Naven

Benedict, R. Patterns of Culture

Boas, F. Primitive Art

Boas, F. The Mind of Primitive Man

Kroeber, A. Style and Civilizations

Kroeber, A. Configurations of Culture and Growth

Linton, R. The Study of Man

Lowie, R. Primitive Society

Lowie, R. Primitive Religion

Lowie, R. The Origin of the State

Mead, M. Coming of Age in Samoa

Radin, P. The Trickster

Sapir, E. Language

V. British Social Anthropology

Evans-Pritchard, E. E. Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the

Azande

Evans-Pritchard, E. E. The Nuer

Evans-Pritchard, E. E. Nuer Religion

Evans-Pritchard, E. E. Social Anthropology and Other Essays

Evans-Pritchard, E. E. and Meyer Fortes, African Political Systems

Firth, R. We, The Topeka

Firth, R. Elements of Social Organisation Fortes, Meyer, The Dynamics

of Clanship among the Tallensi

Fortes, Meyer, Oedipus and Job in West African Religion

Fortes, Meyer, Time and social structure and other essays.

Fortes, Meyer, Religion, morality, and the person

Malinowski, B. Argonauts of the Western Pacific

Malinowski, B. Coral Gardens and their Magic

Malinowski, B. Crime and Custom in Primitive Society

Malinowski, B. A Scientific Theory of Culture

Radcliffe-Brown, A. R. The Andaman Islanders

Radcliffe-Brown, A. R. Structure and Function in Primitive Society

VI. Post-World War II Social Theory

Adorno & Horkheimer, Dialectics of Enlightenment

Adorno, T. Negative Dialectics

Adorno, et al. The Authoritarian Personality

Barth, F. Indus and Swat Kohistan

Lévi-Strauss, C. The Elementary Structures of Kinship

Lévi-Strauss, C. The Savage Mind

Leach, E. Political Systems of Highland Burma

Merleau-Ponty, M. Phenomenology of Perception

Steward, J. Theory of Culture Change

White, L. The Science of Culture

VII. The Sixties and Beyond

Conklin, H. Hanunóo Agriculture

Douglas, Mary, Purity and Danger.

Fried, Morton, The Evolution of Political Society.

Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Cultures.

Goodenough, W. Property, Kin and Community in Truk

Harris, Marvin, Cultural Materialism.

Marcus, George and J. Fischer, Anthropology as Cultural Critique.

Ortner, Sherry and Harriet Whitehead, Sexual Meanings.

Rappaport, Roy, Pigs for the Ancestors.

Rosaldo, Michelle and Louise Lamphere, Women, Culture and Society.

Sahlins, Marshall, The Use and Abuse of Biology.

Sahlins, Marshall and Elmond Service, Evolution and Culture.

Turner, V. Schism and Continuity in African Society

Turner, V. The Ritual Process.

Turner, V. Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors.

Tylor, Stephen. Cognitive Anthropology.

Wilson, Edward, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis