Political anthropology
Here are entered works on political anthropology as a branch of learning. This heading may be divided geographically for works on this branch of learning in a specific place. Works on the political life of particular ethnic groups are entered under the name of the group subdivided by Politics and government. Works on the anthropological aspects of political science are entered under Political science -- Anthropological aspects.
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:Used for:- Anthropology, Political
- Government, Primitive
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Anthropological Approaches to Political Behavior (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press in cooperation with Ethnology, c1991), ed. by Frank McGlynn and Arthur Tuden, contrib. by Richard G. Dillon, Ernest Brandewie, Roger M. Keesing, Karen J. Brison, L. Lewis Wall, Donald V. Kurtz, Charles Lindholm, Richard William Miller, Philip Adams Dennis, Sydel Silverman, Harvey E. Goldberg, Daniela Weinberg, Mart Bax, Robert F. Maher, Daniel T. Hughes, and James Howe (page images at Pitt)
- Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, c2004), by David Graeber (PDF files with commentary at prickly-paradigm.com)
- Grassroots Governance? Chiefs in Africa and the Afro-Caribbean (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2003), ed. by Donald Iain Ray and P. S. Reddy (PDF files at University of Calgary)
- Reinventing African Chieftaincy in the Age of AIDS, Gender, Governance, and Development (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011), ed. by Donald Iain Ray, Tim Quinlan, Keshav Sharma, and Tacita Clarke (PDF files at University of Calgary)
- Reinventing African Chieftaincy in the Age of AIDS, Gender, Governance, and Development (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011), ed. by Donald Iain Ray, Tim Quinlan, Keshav Sharma, and Tacita Clarke (PDF files at University of Calgary)
- Reinventing African Chieftaincy in the Age of AIDS, Gender, Governance, and Development (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011), ed. by Donald Iain Ray, Tim Quinlan, Keshav Sharma, and Tacita Clarke (PDF files at University of Calgary)
- Ceremony and Power: Performing Politics in Rome Between Republic and Empire (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005), by Geoffrey S. Sumi (page images at HathiTrust)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Ethnology- Perspectives: An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology (Arlington, VA: American Anthropology Association, 2017), ed. by Nina Brown, Laura Tubelle de González, and Thomas McIlwraith (multiple formats at americananthro.org)
- Emotions, Senses, Spaces: Ethnographic Engagements and Intersections (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2016), ed. by Susan R. Hemer and Alison Dundon (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
- Conversations With Tim Ingold: Anthropology, Education and Life (Edinburgh: Scottish Universities Press, c2024), by Tim Ingold, Robert Gibb, Philip Tonner, and Diego Maria Malara (PDF and Epub with commentary at Project MUSE)
- The Racial Basis of Civilization: A Critique of the Nordic Doctrine (revised edition; New York and London: A. A. Knopf, 1931), by Frank Hamilton Hankins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Racial Basis of Civilization: A Critique of the Nordic Doctrine (New York and London: A. A. Knopf, 1926), by Frank Hamilton Hankins
- A Critique on Nott and Gliddon's Ethnological Works, With Some Remarks on an Article by W. S. Forwood, M.D., Entitled "The Negro, A Distinct Species", Published in the Medical and Surgical Reporter for May, 1857 (Burlingon, NJ: Office of the Medical and Surgical Reporter; et al., 1857), by Abraham Coles
- Denkschrift zum Hundertjährigen Geburtsfeste Goethes: Ueber Ungleiche Befähigung der Verschiedenen Menschheitstämme für Höhere Geistige Entwickelung (in German; Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1849), by Carl Gustav Carus
- Die Ungleichheit Menschlicher Rassen Hauptsächlich vom Sprachwissenschaftlichen Standpunkte, unter Besonderer Berücksichtigung von des Grafen von Gobineau Gleichnamigem Werke (in German; Lemgo and Detmold: Meyer, 1856), by August Friedrich Pott
- Ethnology (London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1900), by Michael Haberlandt, trans. by James H. Lowe (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Ethnology (Toronto: G. N. Moran, 1901), by Michael Haberlandt, trans. by James H. Lowe (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Human Race (London: Chapman and Hall, 1872), by Louis Figuier (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Human Race (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1872), by Louis Figuier (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Human Race (New York, D. Appleton and co., 1873), by Louis Figuier (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Races of Man and Their Distribution (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., ca. 1909), by Alfred C. Haddon (page images at HathiTrust)
- Völker, Rassen, Sprachen (in German; Berlin: Welt-Verlag, 1922), by Felix von Luschan
- Emotional Trials: The Moral Dilemmas of Women Criminal Defense Attorneys (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2004), by Cynthia Siemsen (multiple formats at Northeastern and archive.org)
- The Migrations of Early Culture: A Study of the Significance of the Geographical Distribution of the Practice of Mummification as Evidence of the Migrations of Peoples and the Spread of Certain Customs and Beliefs (Manchester: At the University Press; London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1915), by Grafton Elliot Smith
- The Origin and Antiquity of Physical Man Scientifically Considered, by Hudson Tuttle (page images at MOA)
- Psychologie en Ethnologie in de Koloniale Politiek (in Dutch; Amsterdam: J.H. de Bussy, 1916), by Herman F. C. ten Kate (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Witch-Cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1921), by Margaret Alice Murray
- Fire as an Agent in Human Culture (US National Museum bulletin #139; Washington: GPO, 1926), by Walter Hough (page images at HathiTrust)
- Crania Americana: or, A Comparative View of the Skulls of Various Aboriginal Nations of North and South America; To Which is Prefixed, An Essay on the Varieties of the Human Species (with an appendix by Combe; Philadelphia: J. Dobson; London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1839), by Samuel George Morton, contrib. by George Combe, illust. by John Collins
- Man's Place in Nature, and Other Anthropological Essays (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1897), by Thomas Henry Huxley (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Tensions Between Culture and Human Rights: Emancipatory Social Work and Afrocentricity in a Global World (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2021), ed. by Vishanthie Sewpaul, Linda Kreitzer, and Tanusha Raniga (PDF files at University of Calgary)
- Neger-Eros: Ethnologische Studien Über das Sexualleben bei Negern (in German; Berlin and Cologne: A. Marcus und E. Weber, 1928), by Felix Bryk
- Der Afrikanische Pfeil: Eine Anthropogeographische Studie (in German; Leipzig: O. Schmidt, 1899), by Karl Weule
- Africa and its Inhabitants (4 volumes; London: Virtue and Co., ca. 1899), by Elisée Reclus, ed. by A. H. Keane
- On the Trail of the Pigmies: An Anthropological Exploration Under the Cooperation of the American Museum of Natural History and American Universities (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1922), by Leonard John Vanden Bergh (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Ostafrikanische Studien (in French; Schaffhausen: F. Hurter, 1864), by Werner Munzinger
- At the Back of the Black Man's Mind: or, Notes on the Kingly Office in West Africa (1906), by R. E. Dennett (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Savage Man in Central Africa: A Study of Primitive Races in the French Congo (London: T. Fisher Unwin, c1913), by Adolphe Louis Cureau, trans. by E. Andrews (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Die Johannis des Corippus als Quelle Libyscher Ethnologie (dissertation in German; Augsburg: J.P. Himmer, 1919), by Martin Riedmüller
- The Life of a South African Tribe (2 volumes; Neuchatel: A. Freres, 1912-1913), by Henri Alexandre Junod
- The Life of a South African Tribe (2 volumes; Neuchatel: A. Freres; London: Macmillan, 1913), by Henri Alexandre Junod (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Le Noir du Soudan, Pays Mossi et Gourounsi: Documents et Analyses (in French; Paris: E. Larose, 1912), by Louis Tauxier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Missions de Gironcourt en Afrique Occidentale, 1908/1909 - 1911/1912: Documents Scientifiques (in French; Paris: Société de Géographie, 1920), by G. de Gironcourt
- West African Studies (London and New York: Macmillan, 1899), by Mary Henrietta Kingsley
- Hebrewisms of West Africa: From Nile to Niger With the Jews (c1930), by Joseph J. Williams (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Fetichism in West Africa: Forty Years' Observation of Native Customs and Superstitions (1904), by Robert Hamill Nassau
- Fetichism in West Africa: Forty Years' Observation of Native Customs and Superstitions (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1904), by Robert Hamill Nassau (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Fetichism in West Africa: Forty Years' Observation of Native Customs and Superstitions (London: Duckworth and Co., 1904), by Robert Hamill Nassau
- Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, by Richard Francis Burton
- Fieldiana: Anthropology (partial serial archives)
- Monographs of the American Ethnological Society (partial serial archives)
- Anthropological Series (Field Museum) (full serial archives)
- University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology (1903-1964) (partial serial archives)
- The Lost Atlantis and Other Ethnographic Studies (Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1892), by Daniel Wilson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Conquest of a Continent: or, The Expansion of Races in America (New York and London: C. Scribner's Sons, 1933), by Madison Grant, contrib. by Henry Fairfield Osborn
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