The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea
by Annette B. Weiner | 
Local Knowledge
by Clifford Geertz | 
The Harmless People
by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas | 
The Gift
by Marcel Mauss | 
Cannibals and Kings
by Marvin Harris | 
Patterns of Culture
by Ruth Benedict | 
The Imperial Animal
by Lionel Tiger | 
Culture and Commitment
by Margaret Mead | 
The Mountain People
by Colin M. Turnbull | 
Coming of Age in Samoa
by Margaret Mead | 
Argonauts of the Western Pacific
by Bronislaw Malinowski | 
The Interpretation of Cultures
by Clifford Geertz | 
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches
by Marvin Harris | 
The Old Way
by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas | 
The Forest People
by Colin M. Turnbull |
Death Without Weeping
by Nancy Scheper-Hughes | 
Our Kind
by Marvin Harris | 
What Color Is the Sacred?
by Michael Taussig | 
Mad Dogs, Englishmen, and the Errant Anthropologist
by Douglas Raybeck | 
Weaponizing Anthropology
by David H. Price |
Anthropology is a kind of debate between human possibilities-a dialectical movement between the anthropologist as a modern man and the primitive peoples he studies. In Search of the Primitive is a tough-minded book containing chapters ranging from encounters in the field to essays on the nature of law, schizophrenia and civilization, and the evolution of the work of Claude L?vi-Strauss. Above all it is reflective and self-critical, critical of the discipline of anthropology and of the civilization that produced that discipline. Diamond views the anthropologist who refuses to become a searching critic of his own civilizations as not merely irresponsible, but a tool of Western civilization. He rejects the associations which have been made in the ideology of our civilization, consciously or unconsciously, between Western dominance and progress, imperialism and evolution, evolution and progress.