Part I: Introduction 1. Edward Tylor, from Primitive Culture 2. Lewis Henry Morgan, from Ancient Society 3. Franz Boas, from The Methods of Ethnology 4. Emile Durkheim, from Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (Excerpts) Part II: The Nature of Culture 5. Alfred Kroeber, from Disposal of the Dead 6. Ruth Benedict, from Configurations of Culture in North America 7. Edward Sapir, from Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech 8. Margaret Mead, from More Comprehensive Field Methods Part III: The Nature of Society 9. Marcel Mauss, from The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies 10. Bronislaw Malinowski, from The Primitive Economics of the Trobriand Islanders 11. A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, from The Comparative Method in Social Anthropology 12. Edward E. Evans-Pritchard, from Social Anthropology: Past and Present Part IV. Evolutionary, Adaptationist, and Materialist Theories 13. Leslie A. White, from Energy and the Evolution of Culture 14. Julian Steward, from Linguistic Distributions and Political Groups of the Great Basin Shoshoneans 15. Marvin Harris, from Anthropology and the Theoretical and Paradigmatic Significance of the Collapse of Soviet and East European Communism 16. Eleanor Burke Leacock, from Women's Status in Egalitarian Society: Implications for Social Evolution Part V: Structures, Symbols, and Meaning 17. Claude Levi-Strauss, from The Structural Study of Myth 18. Victor Turner, from Symbols in African Ritual 19. Clifford Geertz, from Ritual and Social Change: A Javanese Example 20. Mary Douglas, from Animals in Lele Religious Symbolism Part VI. Structures, Practice, Agency, Power 21. James W. Fernandez, from Symbolic Consensus in a Fang Reformative Cult 22. Sherry B. Ortner, from On Key Symbols 23. Pierre Bourdieu, from The Berber House of the World Reversed 24. Eric R. Wolf, from Types of Latin American Peasantry: A Preliminary Discussion 25. Marshall D. Sahlins, from Poor Man, Rich Man, Big-Man, Chief: Political Types in Melanesia and Polynesia
