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.

Cigana, Lorenzo, and Frans Gregersen, eds. Structuralism as One--Structuralism as Many: Studies in Structuralisms. Vol. 21. Scientia Danica, Series H, Humanistica 8. Copenhagen: Gads Forlag, 2023.
Cunha, Edgar Teodoro da, and Sylvia Caiuby Novaes. "Landscapes of memory: the first visual images of the Bororo of Central Brazil." Vibrant: Virtual Brazil Anthropology 16 (2019).
Glenn, Ian. "The Original Scene of Anthropology: Levaillant's Illustrations of Visiting the Gonaqua." Visual Anthropology 33, no. 4 (2020): 301–12.
Godelier, Maurice. Claude Lévi-Strauss A Critical Study of his Thought. Bloomsbury, 2018.
Herza, Filip. "Sombre faces: Race and nation-building in the institutionalization of Czech physical anthropology (1890s–1920s)." History and Anthropology 31, no. 3 (2020): 371–92.
Hockings, Paul. "The Amateur Anthropologist. G. W. Willis and his Precursors." Anthropos 115, no. 2 (2020): 343–55.
Houlton, Tobias M. R., and B. K. Billings. "Blood, sweat and plaster casts: Reviewing the history, composition, and scientific value of the Raymond A. Dart Collection of African Life and Death Masks." Homo 65, no. 5 (2017): 362–77.
Huntley, Devorah L., and Maxine E. McBrinn. Linda Cordell: Innovating Southwest Archaeology. Santa Fe: University of New Mexico Press, 2022.
Kan, Sergei. A Maverick Boasian: The Life and Work of Alexander A. Goldenweiser. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023.
Kasten, Erich, and Michael Dürr. "Jochelson and the Jesup North Pacific Expedition: A New Approach in the Ethnography of the Russian Far East." In The Koryak, 9–34. Fürstenberg/Havel: Kulturstiftung Sibirien, 2016.
Laviolette, Patrick. "Mana and Māori culture: Raymond Firth's pre-Tikopia years." History and Anthropology 31, no. 3 (2020): 393–409.
Mattig, Ruprecht. "Ethnography and liberty: a new look at the anthropological work of Wilhelm von Humboldt." History and Anthropology 31, no. 4 (2020): 491–509.
Melman, Billie. Empires of Antiquities: Modernity and the Rediscovery of the Ancient Near East, 1914-1950. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Moderbacher, Christine. "The Life and Work of Marquis Robert de Wavrin, an Early Visual Anthropologist." Visual Anthropology 33, no. 4 (2020): 313–32.
Monteath, Peter. "German anthropology, nationalism and imperialism: Georg von Neumayer's Anleitung zu wissenschaftlichen Beobachtungen auf Reisen." History and Anthropology 31, no. 4 (2020): 440–61.
Solleveld, Floris. "Language as a Specimen." Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 46, no. 1 (2023): 92–113.
Steffen, Megan. "A Mystery in the Archives: The Historiography of Denial, Henrietta Schmerler's Rape and Murder, and Anthropology's Project of Prevention." American Anthropologist 123, no. 4 (2021): 767–79.
Stewart, Ian. "James Cowles Prichard and the Linguistic Foundations of Ethnology." Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 46, no. 1 (2023): 76–91.