(all material in the public domain are linked in the syllabus)

• Benedict, Ruth "Configurations of culture in North America," American Anthropologist 34: 1-27.
• Boas, Franz "The intepretations of culture" (Chapter 10) in The mind of primitive man . New York: The Free Press. [1911] 1938.
• D'Altroy, Terence The Incas. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 2015
• Durkheim, Emile "What is a social fact?" in The rules of the sociological method. Tr. by W.D. Halls. New York: The Free Press. [1895] 1968 (pp. 50 to 59)
• Garfinkel, Harold Ethnomethodology's program: Working out Durkheim's aphorism. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 2002
• Geertz, Clifford The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books. 1973.
• Glaser, Barney and Anselm Strauss "Temporal aspects of dying as a non-scheduled status passage." American Journal of Sociology 71:48-59. 1965
• Graeber, David and David Wengrow The dawn of everything (. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
• Gregory, Steven "Placing the Politics of Black Class Formation" (pp. 137-169). in History in Person. Edited by D. Holland and J. Lave. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press. 2001
• Holland, Dorothy et al. Identity and agency in cultural worlds. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1998.
• Jakobson, Roman "Concluding statement: Linguistics and poetics." in Style in language. Edited by T. Sebeok. New York: Wiley. pp. 350-359.
• Koyama, Jill Making failure pay: For-profit tutoring, high-stake testing, and public schools. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2010
• Lansing, J. Stephen Perfect order: Recognizing complexity in Bali. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2006
• Latour, Bruno Bruno Laboratory life: The construction of scientific facts. New York: Sage Publications. 1979.
• Latour, Bruno Reassembling the social: An introduction to actor-network theory. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005.
• Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger Situated learning: Legitimate peripheral participation. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1991.
• Lévi-Strauss, Claude Totemism. Tr. by R. Needham Boston: Beacon Press. [1962] 1963
• Lévi-Strauss, Claude Wild thought. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2021
• Marx, Karl "History: Fundamental Conditions" in The German ideology. New York: International Publishers. [1845] 1970
• Mauss, Marcel The Gift. New York: Routledge. [1923-24] 2002 (Introduction, Chapters 1 & 2, Conclusion)
• Saussure, Ferdinand de "Linguistic value" in Course in General Linguistics. pp. 111-122. Tr. by W. Baskin. New York: McGraw-Hill. [1915] 1966
• Schneider, David "Social dynamics of physical disability in Army basic training." in Personality in nature, society and culture. Edited by C. Kluckhohn and H. Murray. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. pp. 386-397. (First published in 1947) 1953.
• Scott, James The art of not being governed: An anarchist history of upland Southeast Asia. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 2009
• Searle, John "What is a speech act?" in Philosophy in America. Edited by M. Black. London: Allen and Unwin. pp. 221-239.
• Weber, Max The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. London: George Allen and Unwin. [1905]1962
• Weber, Max "The Methodological Foundations of Sociology." (c 1897)