Bambert, Arnold.
Africa Tribal Art of the Forest and Savanna
, Thames and Hudson, 1980.
Excellent reproductions but very little text.
Blackburn, Julia.
The Whitemen
, Times Book, 1979.
First encounters with whitemen from the African point of view.
Boas, Franz.
General Anthropology
, D.C. Heath and Company, 1938.
Selections of classic papers by Boas and other anthropologists.
Brain, Robert.
Art and Society in Africa
, Longman, London and New York, 1980.
African art viewed within its cultural context.
Brinton, Daniel.
Myths of the Americas. Symbolism and Mythology of the Indians of the Americas
, Multimedia Publishing Corporation, Blauvelt, New York, 1976 edition. Originally pub. 1868.
Carefully worked out and wonderfully still relevant.
Burridge, Kenelm,
Mambu—A Study of Melanesian Cargo Movements and Their Social and Ideological Background
, Harper Torchbooks, Harper and Row, Publishers, New York and Evanston, 1960.
Campbell, Joseph.
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
, Bollingen Series XVII, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, second ed. 1968.
The parallels in the myths of different cultures.
Christensen, Erwin O.
Primitive Art
, Bonanza Books, New York, 1955.
Good reproductions. Text written in preenlightenment era.
Clark, J. Desmond,
The Prehistory of Africa, Ancient People and Places
, Prager Publishers, New York Washington, 1970.
Early man in Africa, good charts, maps, drawings of stone tools, chronological sequence of evolution.
Clark, Grahame.
World Prehistory
, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1977.
Origins and development of human culture.
Coon, Carleton S.
The Origin of Races
, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1962.
Coon, Carleton S.
The Story of Man
, Alfred A. Knopf. New York, 1962, second edition.
Prehistoric to present day, including explanation of carbon dating.
Daniel, Glyn.
The First Civilizations: The Archaeology of Their Origins
, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, 1968.
Origins of Sumer, Egypt, Indus, China, the Americas.
Frazer, Sir James George.
The Golden Bough A Study in Magic and Religion
, MacMillan Company, New York, 1951.
The classic text on world mythologies.
Hayes, E. Nelson and Tanya Hayes, ed.
Claude LéviStrauss The Anthropologist as Hero
, M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England, 1970.
Selection of papers by colleagues and scholars elucidating and arguing against LeviStrauss’ writings.
Head, James G. and Linda MacLea.
Myth and Meaning
, Mc Dougal, Littell and Company, Evanston, Illinois, 1976.
For teachers and students 58 grade. Exercises and suggestions for activities.
Kubler, George.
The Shape of Time Remarks on the History of Things
, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1962.
How manmade ‘things’ and ideas in a temporal sequence become a picture or shape of time in history.
Leakey, Richard E.
The Making of Mankind
, E.P. Dutton, New York, 1981.
Very readable, filled with intelligent conjecture about early man in Africa.
Leakey, Richard E. and Roger Lewin.
People of the Lake
, Anchor Press/Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1978.
Fossil remains from the Rift Valley, Africa.
LéviStrauss, Claude.
The Savage Mind
, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1966. Translated from the French
La Pensee Sauvage
.
Science: The savage mind and the domestic mind reach the same conclusions by different routes.
Lippard, Lucy R.
Overlay Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory
, Pantheon Books, New York, 1983.
Influence of prehistoric art on modern art.
Lommel, Andreas.
Masks: Their Meaning and Function
, Excalibur Books, New York, 1970.
Visual art reference text.
Malinowski, Bronislaw.
Magic Science and Religion
, Doubleday Anchor Books, 1954. First edition, 1925.
Maringer, Johannes.
The Gods of Prehistoric Man
, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1960.
Neanderthal of Europe.
Midgley, Mary.
Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature
, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 1978.
Murray, Jocelyn, ed.
Cultural Atlas of Africa
, Facts on File Publications, New York, 1981.
Good survey book for teachers and students, facts and figures brief descriptions of countries.
Pfeiffer, John E.
The Creative Explosion: An Inquiry Into the Origins of Art and Religion
, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York. 1982.
Traces the beginnings of art in prehistoric times.
Prown, Jules.
Mind in Matter: An Introduction to Material Culture Theory and Method
, reprinted from
Winterthur Portfolo
, Vol. 17, Number 1, Spring 1982.
Shalvey, Thomas.
Claude LéviStrauss; Social Psychology and the Collective Unconscious
, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, l979.
Ternes, Alan. ed.
American Museum of Natural History
,
Ants Indians and Dinosaurs
, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1975.
A collection of articles originally published in Natural History magazine. Anecdotes by anthropologists.
