🐻 Cornell Anthropology unofficial reading list, fall 2026
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Freshman level
Culture, Society & Power: Person, Time & Conduct ANTHR 1101-101
- Stories as Equipment for Living: Last Talks and Tales of Barbara Myerhoff
Sophomore level
The Natural History of Chimpanzees & the Origins of Politics ANTHR 2310
- In The Shadow Of Man by Jane Goodall
- Chimpanzee Politics by Frans de Waal
- Wild Chimpanzees: Social Behavior of an Endangered Species by Adam Clark Arcadi
Cultural Diversity & Contemporary Issues ANTHR 2400 (su26)
- The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail by De Leon & Wells
- Warning Signs of Genocide: An Anthropological Perspective by Anderson & Anderson
Nature-Culture: Ethnographic Approaches to Human Environment RelationsANTHR 2420
- Cattle Bring Us to Our Enemies: Turkana Ecology, Politics & Raiding in a Disequilibrium System by J. Terrence McCabe
- Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal & the Making of the National Parks by Mark David Spence
Culture & Mental Health: Anthropological Perspectives ANTHR 2424
- The Occupied Clinic: Militarism & Care in Kashmir by Saiba Varma
- Psychiatric Encounters: Madness & Modernity in Yucatan, Mexico by Beatriz M. Reyes-Foster
- Our Most Troubling Madness: Case Studies in Schizophrenia across Cultures by Luhrmann & Marrow
- A Disability of the Soul: An Ethnography of Schizophrenia & Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan by Karen Nakamura
- The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction & Dispossession along the Rio Grande by Angela Garcia
- Mental Disorder: Anthropological Insights by Nichola Khan
The Rise & Fall of Civilizations ANTHR 2430
- Ancient Civilizations by Scarre & Fagan
South Asian Religions in Practice: The Healing Traditions ANTHR 2546
- The Indian Way: An Introduction to the Philosophies & Religions of India by John M Koller
- Shamans, Mystics & Doctors: A Psychological Inquiry into India & its Healing Traditions by Sudhir Kakar
- Medusa’s Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols & Religious Experience by Gananath Obeyesekere
- Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in India by Diana Eck
- Given to the Goddess by Lucinda Ramberg
- In Amma’s Healing Room: Gender & Vernacular Islam in South India by Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger
- Gabriel of Madness: Islamic Poetry & Ethics in an Age of Hindu Nationalism by Anand Vivek Taneja
- Mudpacks and Prozac: Experiencing Ayurvedic, Biomedical & Religious Healing by Murphy Halliburton
Senior level
Time & History in Ancient Mexico ANTHR 4256
- The Codex Borgia: A Full-Color Restoration of the Ancient Mexican Manuscript by Díaz & Rodgers
- Portraying the Aztec Past: The Codices Boturini, Azcatitlan & Aubin by Angela Herren Rajagopalan
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Deciphering Aztec Hieroglyphs: A Guide to Nahuatl Writing by Gordon Whittaker