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Miner, Horace (1956) Body Ritual among the Nacirema. pp.503-507
Ibn Battúta [1325-1354] Travels in Asia and Africa. pp.272-281.
Ma Huan [1433] The Overall Survey of the Ocean’s Shores. pp.108-121.
Wells, Spencer (2002) The Importance of Culture. pp.146-183.
Thompson, Eric C. (2006) The Problem of “Race as a Social Construct”. pp.6-7
Handwerker, W. Penn (1989) The Origins and Evolution of Culture. pp.313-326
Cronk, Lee (1999) Righting Culture. pp.1-15
Geertz, Clifford (1973) Thick Description. pp.3-30.
Stone, Linda (2000) Kinship and Gender. pp.1-20.
Gillis, John R. (1996) A World of Their Own. pp.61-80.
Ngarüiya and O’Brien (2004) Revisiting ‘Woman-Woman Marriage.’ pp.137-149.
Shostak, Marjorie (1981) Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman. pp.105-270 (selections)
Weatherford, Jack (1997) The World Market pp.1-12.
Hart, Keith (N.S.) Heads or Tails? Two Sides of the Coin. pp.637-656.
Anderson, Ben (1991) Census, Map, Museum. pp.163-185.
Jonsson, Hjorleifer (2005) Yao Origins. pp.16-43.
Wilmsen, Edwin N. (1997) Land Filled with Flies: The Evolution of Illusion. pp.246-268.
Evans-Pritchard, E.E. (1950) Social Anthropology: Past and Present. pp.410-421
Abu-Lughod, Lila (1987) The Poetry of Personal Life. pp. 171-185.
Thompson, Eric C. (2002) Rocking East and West: The USA in Malaysian Music. pp.58-79.
Ghosh, Amitav (1986) The Imam and the Indian. pp.47-55.
Yamashita, Shinji, et al. (2004) Asian Anthropologies: Foreign, Native and Indigenous. pp.1-34.
Thompson, Eric C. (2008) A World of Anthropologies (Review Essay). pp.121-127