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Any Reading Recommendations?
RMJon23 (rmjon23@aol.com)
3 Jul 1996 01:35:53 -0400
Hello. I'm a beginning anthropology student - mostly autodidactical so far
- and would like some reading recommendations. Maybe my biggest problem is
that I'm fascinated by everything I've read which is even ~peripherally~
related to Anthropology. In the last 6 months I've read a college textbook
cover to cover, _Patterns of Culture_by Ruth Benedict, Colin Turnbull's
_The Forest People_ (this would make anyone love anthropology, it would
seem), ethnographies on the Mardudjara Aboriginies and Tepoztecans (of
Mexico), R. Leakey's _The Origin of Humankind_, and Marvin Harris's _Cows,
Pigs, Wars, and Witches_. I've been reading a few things on vanishing
peoples and cultures. I just finished an obscure textbook called
_Anthropology Through Science Fiction_ that I picked up at a library sale
for $1. It was pretty cool, but it seems the more I read the more ignorant
I feel.
What were the texts that fired YOUR enthusiasm for Anthro? What texts do
you consider indispensible for undergrad Anthro students?
As the Brits say, "Thanks in Advance"
michael
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