Books Available in the Bookstore (Fall 2024)

These are all books that have significant sections as assigned reading, and they are important books to have or they can be resold. They are listed in the order they are assigned.

Assigned selections of these books are also available on ereserve.

See Class Schedule for list of specific required and supplementary readings from these books.

  • Firmin, Joseph-Anténor. 2000[1885]. The Equality of the Human Races: Positivist Anthropology. New York: Garland Publishing Inc.

  • Trouillot, Michel-Rolph (2003) Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

  • Simpson, Audra. 2014. Mohawk interruptus: political life across the borders of settler states. Durham: Duke University Press.

  • Boas, Franz. Race, Language and Culture, 1948 (1932). (Only a few copies).

  • Hurston, Zora Neale. 2009[1938]. Tell My Horse. New York: Harper Collins.

  • Durkheim, Emile. Elementary Forms of Religious Life. Fields translation (Do not use the Swain translation). New York: the Free Press, 1995 (1912).

  • Evans-Pritchard, E. E. The Nuer. New York: Oxford University Press, 1969(1940). (Only a few copies).

  • Mauss, Marcel. The Gift. W.D. Halls, trans. London: Routledge, 1990[1950].

  • Charlotte Coté. Spirits of our Whaling Ancestors: Revitalizing Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth Traditions. UWash Press, 2010.