Classic Texts of the Anthropology of Religion:
Benedict, Ruth. Patterns of Culture. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961.
Boas, Franz. The Mind of a Primitive Man. New York: Macmillan Company, 1946
Durkheim, Emile. The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. New York: Free Press, 1995.
Evans-Pritchard, E.E. The Nuer. Oxford: Clarendon press, 1940.
Frazer, James. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Kroeber, A.L. Configurations of Culture Growth. Berkeley Los Angeles: University of California press, 1944. (CB53 .K7)
Levi-Strauss, Claude. Structural Anthropology. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1953. (See Leach)
Levy-Bruhl, Lucien. Primitive Mentality. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923.
Malinoswki, Bronislaw. Argonauts of the Western Pacific. New York: Dutton, 1950.
Mead, Margaret. Coming of Age in Samoa. New York: Morrow Press, 1961.
Radcliffe-Brown, A.R. Structure and Function in Primitive Society. Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press, 1952.
Smith, W. Robertson. The Religion of the Semites: the Fundamental Institutions. New York: Meridian Books, 1957.
Tylor, Edward. Primitive Culture. New York: H. Holt and company, 1889.
Van Gennep, Arnold. Rites of Passage. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965.
Modern Classics:
Beattie, John. Spirit Mediumship and Society in Africa. New York: Africana Pub. Corp., 1969.
Bloch, Maurice. Prey Into Hunter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Bourdieu, Pierre. Distinction. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1984.
Clifford, James. The Predicament of Culture. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988.
Douglas, Mary. Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology. London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1973.
Dumont, Louis. Homo Hierarchicus. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.
Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books, 1973.
Goody, Jack. The Domestication of the Savage Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977.
Lacquer, Thomas. Making Sex. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1990.
Leach, Edmund. Culture and Communication. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976.
Marcus, George and Michael Fischer. Anthropology as Cultural Critique. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Obeyesekere, Gananath. The Apotheosis of Captain Cook : European Mythmaking in the Pacific. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997.
Sahlins, Marshall. Culture and Practical Reason. University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1976.
Spiro, Melford. Burmese Supernaturalism. Philadelphia : Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1978.
Tambiah, Stanley. Magic, Science, Religion and the Scope of Rationality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Turner, Victor. The Ritual Process. Chicago:Aldine Pub. Co., 1969.
Vogt, Evon Z. Tortillas for the Gods: A Symbolic Analysis of Zinacanteco Rituals. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U. Press, 1976.
Worsley, Peter. The Trumpet Shall Sound. New York: Schocken Books, 1968.