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.
Bortolini, Matteo. "'A Twenty-Four Hour Job'. Hildred and Clifford Geertz's First Foray into the Field and the Scholarly Persona of the Ethnographer." History and Anthropology 36, no. 1 (2025): 163–85.
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.
Jonge, Hans Laurens de. "Depicting Race: A Newly Discovered Portrait of Aquasi Boachi and Kwame Poku from the Anthropological Collection of Jan van der Hoeven (1801–1868)." Nuncius: Annali Di Storia Della Scienza 38, no. 1 (2023): 165–92.
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.
Lavelle, Jessica-Jane. "The Making, Unmaking and Adaptation of Mayeyi Multispecies Entanglements within the Kwando-Linyanti Wetlands: Eighteenth Century to 1990." Anthropology Southern Africa 47, no. 2 (2024): 236–53.
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.
Marcondes, Danilo. Skepticism and the New World: The Anthropological Argument and the Emergence of Modernity. New York: Lexington Books, 2024.
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.