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

Ambler, Katherine. “The Manchester Department of Social Anthropology, 1949-1975.” Ph.D., University of London, King’s College, 2022.
Arndt, Grant. "Joining the Ongoing Struggle: Vine Deloria, Nancy Lurie, and the Quest for a Decolonial Anthropology." Journal of Anthropological Research 79, no. 4 (2023): 468–91.
Arndt, Grant. "Decolonization and the History of Americanist Anthropology: Introduction to the Special Issue." Journal of Anthropological Research 79, no. 4 (2023): 433–38.
Barron, Nicholas. "Lessons in Safe Logic: Reassessing Anthropological and Liberal Imaginings of Termination." Journal of Anthropological Research 79, no. 4 (Winter 2023): 492–521.
Beliso-De Jesús, Aisha M., Jemima Pierre, and Junaid Akram Rana. "White supremacy and the making of anthropology." Annual Review of Anthropology 52 (October 2023): 413–75.
Bošković, Aleksandar. William Robertson Smith. Anthropology's Ancestors 2. New York, Oxford: Berghahn, 2021.
Dinwoodie, David W. "Decolonization and the History of Anthropology: The Implications of New Deal Anthropology from the 1930s to the 1950s." Journal of Anthropological Research 79, no. 4 (2023): 439–67.
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. "Axel Sommerfelt in the History of Social Anthropology." History and Atnhropology 33, no. 5 (2022): 580–87.
Gaillard, Gérald. Françoise Héritier. Anthropology's Ancestors 3. New York, Oxford: Bderghahn, 2022.
Gross, Joan. "Reflections on Ethnographic Fieldwork across a Lifetime." Ethnography 24, no. 2 (June 2023): 157–75.
Keck, Frédéric. How French Moderns Think the Lévy-Bruhl Family, From "Primitive Mentality" to Contemporary Pandemics. HAU Books. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023.
Keita, Shomarka O. Y. "Tracing a Genealogy of Ideas, Seeing, and Not Seeing Bias: Legacies in Science and Society of Charles Seligman's Biocultural Theory of Africa (Hamitic Hypothesis) and Ashley Montagu's on Race." American Anthropologist 125, no. 4 (December 2023): 797–808.
Leung, Hok Bun Isaac. "Power and Knowledge: The Birth of Museums in China." Museum Anthropology 46, no. 1 (2023): 26–34.
Macmillan, Hugh. Max Gluckman. Anthropology's Ancestors 6. New York, Oxford: Berghahn, 2024.
Richards, Paul, and Perri 6. Mary Douglas. Anthropology's Ancestors 4. New York, Oxford: Berghahn, 2023.
Scott, Monique. "Excavating Whiteness: The Story of Amandus Johnson's 1290s Expedition to Angola for the Penn Museum." Museum Anthropology 47, no. 1 (Spring 2024): 23–31.
Sera-Shriar, Efram. The Making of British Anthropology, 1813-1871. Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century 18. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013.
Shankman, Paul. Margaret Mead. Anthropology's Ancestors 1. New York: Berghahn, 2021.
Vider, Jaanika. “Marginal Anthropology?: Rethinking Maria Czaplicka and the Development of British Anthropology from a Material History Perspective.” Ph.D., University of Oxford, 2017.
Walsh, Ciarán. Alfred Cort Haddon: A Very English Savage. Anthropology's Ancestors 6. New York, Oxford: Berghahn, 2023.
Weaver, Lesley Jo. "The Laboratory of Scientific Racism: India and the Origins of Anthropology." Annual Review of Anthropology 51 (2022): 67–83.
Young, Adrian. "Putting Anthropology in Its (Hospitable) Place: Harry Shapiro's Fieldwok on Pitcairn Island, 1934-1935." History and Anthropology 33, no. 5 (2022): 631–51.