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Achebe, Chinua: Things Fall Apart.

Man of the People

Arrow of God. 1967

No Longer At Ease.

Ahmed, Leila, Women and Gender in the Middle East. Yale University Press. New Haven, 1992

Alvarez, Julia In The Time of the Butterflies. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. 1994

Anaya, Rudolpho Bless Me, Ultima. Time Warner Reprint: 1992

Armen, Jean-Claude Gazelle Boy.

Balakian, Peter Black Dog of Fate. Broadway Books. 1997.

Ball, Eve Indeh: An Apache Odyssey. Brigham Young University Press. 1980.

Barnouw, Victor Culture and Personality. Dorsey Press. 1985

Bates, Daniel & Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East.

Amal Rassam Prentice Hall. 1983

Benedict, Ruth The Chrysanthemum and the Sword. 1946. (note: there are several editions of this book. any one of them will do)

Bennett, Lerone Jr. Before the Mayflower: A History of BlackAmerica. 6th Revised Edition. Penguin. 1993. originally published in 1962 (the revised edition has more updated information, but any edition will do)

Berlitz, Charles Native Tongues. 1982

Boas Franz The Central Eskimo

Mind of Primitive Man.

Primitive Art. Glouchester, Mass. 1962

Race and Democratic Society. (first published in 1945 and then reprinted by Biblo and Tannenin 1969)

Bodley, John Victims of Progress (2nd Edition). Mayfield Press. 1982

Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems. Mayfield Press. 1985

Bowen, Elinor S. Return to Laughter.

Bordes, Francois The Old Stone Age.

Brentjes, Burchard African Rock Art. (in translation). Clarkson N. Potter: 1970

Brooks, Geraldine Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women. Penguin Books. London: 1995

Brown, Dee Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. 1970.

Burgess, Eernest Aging in Western Societies. University of Chicago Press: revised 1969 edition.

Castro, Fidel The World Economic and Social Crisis. 1983

Chagnon, Napoleon Yanomamo: The Fierce People.

Chan, Sucheng. Asian Americans: An Interpretive History. (Twayne's Immigrant Heritage of America Series). Twayne Publishers. Boston. 1991.

Chinweizu The West and the Rest of US. 1975

Cockburn, Alexander and Susanna Hecht The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon. Verso Press, London 1989

Coe, Michael The Maya.

Crow Dog, Mary Lakota Woman. Harper Perennial. 1991


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Davis, Mike City of Quartz:Excavating The Future in Los Angeles. Vintage Press. 1992

Diaz, Bernal The Conquest of New Spain.

Dyke, Walter Lefthanded, Son of Old Man Hat. Bison. 1966

Eisler, Riane The Chalice and the Blade. Harper and Row: 1987

Evers, Larry & Felipe Molina about the Yaque) The South Corner of Time (myths and stories

U. of Arizona Press. 1981

Fanon, Franz A Dying Colonialism.

The Wretched of the Earth

 

Fernia, Elizabeth Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village

Fosse, Diane Gorilla's in our Mist

Frazier, Sir James The Golden Bough

Fried, Morton Explorations in Anthropology: Readings in Culture, Man and Nature.

The Evolution of Political Society: An Essay on Political Anthropology. NY. 1967

Freuchen, Peter Book of the Eskimo. 1961


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Galdikas, Birute Reflections of Eden:My Years With The Orangutans of Borneo. 1995

Orangutan Odyssey. 1999

Galeano, Eduardo Open Veins to Latin America.

Goodall, Jane My Friends The Wild Chimpanzees. 1967

In the Shadow of Man. 1971

Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees. 1990

Goody, Jack The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe. Cambridge University. 1983

Gordon, Linda Woman's Body, Woman's Right: Birth Control In America. Revised and Updated edition. Penguin. 1990.

Gould, Richard A. Yiwara: Foragers of the Australian Desert. Charles Scribners & Sons: 1969.

Gould, Stephen Jay Ever Since Darwin. 1973

Mismeasure of Man. 1981

Halderson, K. Alaska Native Food Practices, Customs and Holidays. Chicago. American Dietetic Ass. 1994.

Hall, Edward T. The Silent Language.

The Hidden Dimension.

Halperin, Joel M. Serbian Village in Historical Perspective. 1972.

Hancock, Ian The Pariah Syndrome

Henke, Lewis The Spanish Struggle for Justice In The Conquest of America. Little Brown and Co. Boston:1965 (originally published 1949)

Herodotus The Histories

Herskovitz, M. Franz Boas: The Science of Man in the Making 1953

Holmberg, Alan Nomads of the Long Bow

Homer The Odyssey.

Hooker, K.E. Time Among the Navajo: Traditional Life Ways on the Reservation. Sante Fe. Museum of New Mexico Press. 1991.

Hooper, John The New Spaniards. Penguin (1995 revised)

Horne, Alistair A Terrible War of Peace

Houston, James White Dawn: An Eskimo Saga.

Hyde, George Life of George Bent. University of Oklahoma Press. 1968.

Hymes, Dell ed. Reinventing Anthropology. 1972

Ibuse, Masuji Black Rain. Kodansha International. 1969.


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Johanson, Donald & Maitland Edey Lucy: The Beginnings of Mankind. 1981

 

Keeley, Lawrence War Before Civilization. 1995.

Kraybill, Richard Riddle of the Amish. 1989

Ibn Khaldun The Muqqadimah

Kluckholm, Clyde & Dorothea Leighton The Navaho. 1962

Konig, Hans The Conquest of America: How The Indians Lost Their Continent. Monthly Review Press:1993

Laird, Carobeth Encounters With An Angry God.

Lampe, John Yugoslavia As History: Twice There Was A Country. Cambridge U. Press. 1996

Landes, Ruth The City of Women (a book published in the 1940s about initiation rites in Brazil)

Langewiesche, William. Cutting The Sign: One Man's Journey Along The US-Mexican Border

Lappe, Marc & Britt Bailey. Against The Grain: Biotechnology and the Corporate Takeover of Your Food. Common Courage Press. 1998

Larsen, Clark S. In the Wake of Contact: Biological Responses To Conquest. New York. Wiley. 1994

Leakey, Richard & Roger Lewin.The Sixth Extinction: Biodiversity and its Survival.

Weidenfeld and Nicolson: 1995

Lehmann, Johannes The Hittites: People of a Thousand Gods. Viking: 1977 (translated from 1975 German edition.

Lightfoot-Klein, Hanna. Prisoners of Ritual: An Odyssey into Female Genital Circumcision in Africa Harrington Park Press. 1989

Lhote, Henri The Search for the Tassili Frescoes. EP Dutton 1959.

Linton, Ralph The Study of Man: An Introduction. NY Appleton. 1963.


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Magnarella, Paul Tradition and Change in a Turkish Town. Wiley, NY. 1974

Mair, Lucy Marriage. Baltimore. Penguin. 1971

Malinowski, Bronislaw. Argonauts of the Western Pacific

Magic, Science and Religion, and Other Essays. Garden City NY. 1954

Mallory, JP and Victor H. Mair The Tarim Mummies. Thames and Hudson. 2000

Malson, Lucien Wolf Children and the Problem of Human Nature.

Markandaya, Kamala Nectar in a Sieve.

Marshack, A. The Roots of Civilization. Moyer-Bell. 1991

Matthews, W., ed. Navajo Legends. Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press.

McCrum, R. et al The Story of English. Penguin. Revised Et. 1992

McGowan, Diane Living in the Labyrinth (written by a woman with Alzheimers Disease)

Mead, Margaret The Coming of Age in Samoa.

Montagu, Ashley Race and IQ. Oxford University Press. 1975.

Man and Aggression.

Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race 6th Edition. Altamira Press. 1996. (revised edition of work first published in 1942)

Montgomery, S Walking with the Great Apes: Jane Goodall Diane Fosse. 1991

Mooney, James The Ghost Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak. (1965 reprint)

Morel, E.D. The Black Man's Burden. 1920. (reprinted 1969)

Moss, Maria We've Been Here Before: Women in Creation Myths and Contemporary Literature of the NativeAmerican Southwest. Hamburg, Germany. Lit. Munster Press. 1993

Mowat, Farley Woman in the Midsts. 1987 (biography of Diane Fosse). Note: ANY book by Farley Mowat is acceptable for a book report

Nash, Gary et al History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past. Knopf. 1997

Nehru, Jawaharwal The Discovery of India.

Ortiz, Alfonso Tewa World. University of Chicago. 1969.


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Padden, R.C. The Hummingbird and the Hawk.

Pattanayak, and Debi, Prasana, ed. Multiculturalism in India. 1990

Pei, Mario The Story of Language. (New Revised Edition) 1965

Pfeiffer, John The Creative Explosion.

The Emergence of Society

 

Piles, Thomas The Origins and Development of the English Language. 1964

Pipher, Mary Reviving Orphelia: Saving The Selves of Adolescent Girls. Ballantine Books. 1995

Polo, Marco The Travels of Marco Polo.

Poma, Huaman Letter to a King

Prideaux, T Cromagnon Man. (Time-Life Emergence of Man and Editors of Series) 1973

Time-Life

Reichauer, E. The Japanese Today

Reingold, Edwin Chrysanthemums and Thorns: The Untold Story of Modern Japan. St. Martin's Press. 1992.

Reisner, Marc. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water. Viking. 1986

Reston, James Jr. Galileo: A Life. Harper Collins: 1994

Roberts, Brian The Zulu Kings. 1974

Roded, Ruth Women in Islam and the Middle East:A Reader. IB Taurus Publishers: New York. 1999

Rodney, Walter How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. 1972

Roy, Arundhati The God of Small Things (a novel about Kerala, India)

Rutledge P.J. The Vietnamese Experience In America. Minorities in Modern America).

Indiana University Press. Bloomington. 1992

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Said, Edward Covering Islam. 1981

Orientalism. 1979

 

Samachson, Dorothy The First Artists. Doubleday and Co. NY:1970 & Joseph

Sandoz, Mari Cheyenne Autumn. 1953

Schlesinger, Arthur, M. Jr. The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society. 1991

Schultz, Duane P Month of the Freezing Moon: The Sand Creek Massacre. 1990

Scopes, John and James Presley Center of the Storm. 1967

Service, Elman Primitive Social Organization.

Shanas, Ethel et. Old People in Three Industrial Societies. Ahterton Press. 1968

Shiva, Vandana Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge.(note: this book is about the misuse of genetic engineering). 1997

Shoumatoff, Alex The Mountain of Names: A History of the Human Family. 1985

Simmons, Leo W. The Role of the Aged in Primitive Society. Archon Books. 1945

Sjorberg, Gideon The Preindustrialized City. NY. Free Press.1960.

Spicer, Edward Cycles of Conquest. U. of Arizona Press.1962.

Stanton, William R The Leopard's Spots: Scientific Attitudes Towards Race in America. 1960

Sembene, Ousmane God's Bits of Wood. 1962

Soisson, Jean Princess

Stegner, Wallace Beyond The Hundredth Meridian: A Biography of John Wesley Powell. Houghton Mifflin. 1953

Takaki, Ronald A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. Little, Brown. 1993.

Taylor, Christopher Milk, Honey and Money. (about Rwanda).

Thomas, E. Marshall The Harmless People. 1958

Thorne, Barrie and Marilyn Yalom Rethinking the Family: Some Feminist Questions. Longman Press. 1982

Trafzer, Clifford The Kit Carson Campaign. 1982

Trippett, Frank The First Horsemen (Time-Life Series) 1974

Trouillet, Ralph Haiti: State Against Nation: Origins and Legacy of Duvalierism

Turnbull, Colin The Forest People

 The Mountain People.

Ubelaker, Dr. Doug and Henry Scammell Bones: A Forensic Detective's Casebook.Edward Burlingame Books. 1992

Van Tilburg,Jo Anne Easter Island: Archeology, Ecology and Culture Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC. 1994

Vigil, Ernesto B. The Crusade for Justice. University of Wisconsin Press. 1999.

Warnock, Fernea, E In Search of Islamic Feminism: One Woman's Global Journey. Doubleday: New York: 2000

Waters, Frank Masked Gods.

Wells, Ida B. Autobiography of Ida B. Wells. Negro American Biographies and Autobiographies. John Hope Franklin, Series Editor. U. of Chicago Press. 1970.

White, Leslie Science of Culture. 1949. 1969. Farrar, Strauss & Giroux

Wolf, Eric Sons of the Shaking Earth.

Worsley, Peter Knowledges: Culture, Counter-Culture, Sub-Culture. 1997.

The Trumpet Shall Sound: A Study of Cargo Cults in Melanesia. 1968.

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