Primary Sources   I   Anthropology Theory & Criticism

Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949).

Christopher Caudwell, Illusion and Reality: A Study of the Sources of Poetry (1937).

F. M. Cornford, The Origin of Attic Comedy (1914).

Émile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (1912, trans. Joseph Wood Swain, 1965).

T. S. Eliot, "Ulysses, Order, and Myth" (1923, Selected Prose,Frank Kermode, 1975).

Francis Fergusson, The Idea of a Theater (1949).

James G. Frazer, The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (2 vols., 1890, 3d ed., 12 vols., 1907–15).

Northrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957).

Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures (1973).

Clifford Geertz, Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author (1988).

René Girard, La Violence et la sacré (1972, Violence and the Sacred,trans. Patrick Gregory, 1977).

Jane Harrison, Themis (1912).

Denis Hollier, ed., The College of Sociology (1979, trans. Betsy Wing, 1988).

Micaela di Leonardo, ed., Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge: Feminist Anthropology in the Postmodern Era (1991).

Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Elementary Structures of Kinship (1949, ed. and trans. James Harle Bell, et al., 1969).

Marcel Mauss, The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies (1925, trans. Ian Cunnison, 1954).

Lord Raglan, The Hero: A Study of Tradition, Myth, and Drama (1936).

George Thomson, Aeschylus and Athens: A Study in the Social Origins of Drama (1941).

Victor Turner, Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society (1974).