Blythe Roveland-Brenton

Latest Additions to Bibliography, June 2025

HAR’s Bibliography Editors are pleased to post our latest additions to the bibliography of works on the history of anthropology. We have been working to identify and add newer works, and you will find many 2024 and 2025 references here.

Antic, Ana. "Psychiatry and Decolonization: Histories of Transcultural Psychiatry in the Twentieth Century." Journal of the History of Ideas 85, no. 1 (2024): 149–77.
Brennan, Nathaniel. "Nation and Nurture: Cultural Anthropology, World War II, and the Birth of National Cinema Studies." PhD, New York University, Department of Cinema Studies, 2023.
Brinitzer, Cameron. "Historicizing the Liberal Antiracism of Cultural Evolution." History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 46, no. 4 (December 5, 2024): 46.
Clever, Iris. "Biometry Against Fascism: Geoffrey Morant, Race, and Anti-Racism in Twentieth-Century Physical Anthropology." Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences 114, no. 1 (2023): 25–49. https://doi.org/10.1086/723686.
D'Agostino, Gabriella, and Vincenzo Matera, eds. Histories of Anthropology: Interactions Between Centers and Peripheries in the Making of Anthropological Discourses. London, New York, Shanghai: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.
Dobroski, Sonja. "'This Stuff Speaks to Me': Settler Materiality, Identity and Nationalism Among Collectors of Native American Material Culture." History and Anthropology 35, no. 2 (2024): 271–91.
Ghoshal, Sayori. "Experts of Identity: Race, Ethnicity, and Science in India, 1910s–1940s." Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences 115, no. 1 (2024): 84–104.
Hayes, Emily. "Synoptic Subjects? The Scope and Methods of Philosophy, Geography and Anthropology." Journal of Historical Geography 85 (2024): 66–69.
Jobson, Ryan Cecil. "Facing the Flames: The Herskovitses, Trinidad, and the Anthropological Imagination." American Ethnologist 50, no. 3 (2023): 368–74. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.13189.
Kern, Emily Margaret. "Alternate Edens: History, Evolution, and Origins in UNESCO's Cultural and Scientific History of Mankind." Journal of the History of Ideas 85, no. 1 (2024): 121–48. https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2024.a917118.
Lelis, Romulo. "The Great Transformation: The Durkheimian Sociology of Religion from Émile Durkheim to Henri Hubert." Anthropological Theory 25, no. 1 (2025): 97–117.
Mann, Valentina. "Mind and Knowledge in the Early Thought of Franz Boas, 1887–1904." History of the Human Sciences 35, no. 5 (2022): 157–84.
Pearson, Thomas W. An Ordinary Future: Margaret Mead, the Problem of Disability, and a Child Born Different. University of California Press, 2023.
Pina-Cabral, João. "Person and Relation as Categories: Mauss' Legacy." History and Anthropology 35, no. 1 (2024): 170–88.
Romani, Roberto. "Corrado Gini's economic anthropology." History of the Human Sciences 37, no. 1 (2024): 99–120.
Rouse, Carolyn. "An Anti-Genealogical Take on US Anthropology and Disciplinary Reform." American Ethnologist 50, no. 3 (2023): 356–67. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.13191.
Schlanger, Nathan. L'invention de la technologie: Une histoire intellectuelle avec André Leroi-Gourhan. PUF (Presses universitaires de France), 2023.
Supernant, Kisha. "Truth before Transition: Reimagining Anthropology as Restorative Justice." American Anthropologist 126, no. 3 (2024): 396–407. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13992.

Latest Additions to Bibliography, November 2024

HAR’s Bibliography Editors are pleased to post our latest additions to the bibliography of works on the history of anthropology.

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Latest Additions to Bibliography, March 2024

HAR’s Bibliography Editors are pleased to post our latest additions to the bibliography of works on the history of anthropology. This latest batch of citations includes several titles on linguistic anthropology, including “James Cowles Prichard and the Linguistic Foundations of Ethnology,” as well as biographically-focused pieces on the work of Zora Neale Hurston, Margaret Mead, Harry Shapiro, and Alfred Kroeber.

Don’t forget that you can search the Comprehensive Bibliography, which now includes almost 600 unique authors, by keywords including personal names, places, and concepts.

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Latest Additions to the Bibliography, May 2023

The bibliography section of HAR features citations to recently published works in all formats and covering all aspects of the history of anthropology.  This page displays a comprehensive list of citations that we’ve collected since 2016 (dating back as far as 2013); our recent batches and posts and a search tool are also available separately. You may also browse this list in Zotero.

HAR’s team of bibliography editors was recently expanded from two to four people, and an upside is that we have added expertise in both linguistic anthropology and archaeology, which means we hope to present a more citations in those sub-fields of anthropology in the future.

We welcome suggestions from readers. If you come across something of interest during your own fieldwork in the library, whether that be physical or virtual, please let us know by emailing us at bibliographies@histanthro.org.

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Latest Additions to the Bibliography, January 2023

This page displays our most recent batch of citations; a comprehensive bibliography of citations we’ve collected since 2016 (going back as far as 2013) and a search tool are also available.

Seven authors new to HAR’s Bibliography are being included here: they are Paul Basu, Paul Dukes, Rita Eder, Albina Girfanova, Keith Hart, Emmanuelle Loyer, and Shalon Parker, writing about colonial anthropology in British West Africa, Vilhjalmur Stefansson in the Arctic, and Miguel Covarrubias’s reliance on the theories on cultural contact of Gordon Eckholm and Robert-Heine-Geldern, among other subjects.

We welcome suggestions from readers. If you come across something of interest during your own fieldwork in the library, whether that be physical or virtual, please let us know by emailing us at bibliographies@histanthro.org.

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