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Humanities Study Guide
So, I've decided to try studying Hums on my own. This will, of course, necessitate the compilation of a study guide. I'm putting the list up here so that people can offer any advice they may have on my current selections or future acquisitions.
Keep in mind that this will probably fluctuate wildly for a long period of time. Books are listed alphabetically by category, subcategories, and then author's last name.
Books I already own
Books I can get from the library
Books I'll have to get somewhere else
Anthropology
General
The Story of Archaeology: the 100 great discoveries - ed. by Paul G. Bahn. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, c1996.Warrior Women: an archaeologist's search for history's hidden heroines - Jeannine Davis-Kimball, Mona Behan. Warner Books, c2002.
The Interpretation of Cultures: selected essays - Clifford Geertz. Basic Books, c1973.
The Tree of Culture - Ralph Linton. Knopf, 1972.
Mirror for Humanity: A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology - Conrad Kottak. McGraw-Hill Companies, 2007.
Window on Humanity: A Concise Introduction to Anthropology - Conrad Kottak. McGraw-Hill Companies, 2007.
An Irreverent and Thoroughly Incomplete Social History of Almost Everything - Frank Muir. Frank Muir.
Foreign Bodies: performance, art, and symbolic anthropology - A. David Napier. University of California Press, 1996, c1992.
The Cultural Creatives: how 50 million people are changing the world - Paul H. Ray, Sherry Ruth Anderson. Harmony Books, c2000.
Indigenous Cultures in an Interconnected World - ed. by Claire Smith, Graeme K. Ward. University of British Columbia Press, 2001.
Africa
South Africa in the Sixties: a Socio-Economic Survey - ed. by H.T. Andrews. The South Africa Foundation, 1965.Egypt - Claudie Barocas. Penguin Group (USA), 1972.
Zulu Identities: Being Zulu, Past and Present - ed. by Benedict Carton, John Laband, Jabulani Sithole. Columbia University Press, 2009.
Uganda in Black and White - Hugh B. Cott. Textbook Publishers, 2003.
Shake Hands with the Devil: the failure of humanity in Rwanda - Roméo Dallaire, Brent Beardsley. Random House Canada, c2003.
Timbuktu: the Sahara's fabled city of gold - Marq De Villiers, Sheila Hirtle. McClelland & Stewart, c2007.
Change at Shebika: report from a North African village - Jean Duvignaud. trans. by Frances Frenaye. Pantheon Books, 1970.
Africans and Their History - Joseph E. Harris. Penguin Group (USA), 1998.
The Hidden Treasures of Timbuktu: rediscovering Africa's literary culture - John O. Hunwick, Alida Jay Boye. Thames & Hudson, c2008.
Wars Are Never Enough: The Joao Matwawan - John F. Keith. Bayridge Books, 2005.
Brave Men's Blood: the epic of the Zulu War, 1879 - Ian Knight. Greenhill Books, c1990.
The Washing Of The Spears - Donald R. Morris. Da Capo, 1998.
The African experience - Roland Oliver. PIMLICO, 1993, c1991.
The African Middle Ages: 1400-1800 - Roland Oliver, Anthony Atmore. Cambridge University Press, 1981.
History of East Africa - Roland Oliver, Gervase Mathew. Clarendon Press, 1968, c1963.
Shaka Zulu: the rise of the Zulu Empire - E. A. Ritter. Greenhill, 1955, c1990.
A Woman of Egypt - Jehan Sadat. Pocket Books, c1987.
In Sorcery's Shadow - Paul Stoller, Cheryl Olkes. University of Chicago Press, 1989.
A History of South Africa - Leonard L Thompson. Yale University Press, 1990.
The Forest People - Colin M. Turnbull. Simon and Schuster, 1987, c1962.
Africa: the people and politics of an emerging continent - Sanford J. Ungar. Simon & Schuster, c1989.
South Africa: A Narrative History - Frank Welsh. Kodansha International, c1999.
Freedom by a Hair's Breadth: Tsimihety in Madagascar - Peter J. Wilson. University of Michigan Press, ?.
Asia
Cambodia
When the War Was Over: the voices of Cambodia's revolution and its people - Elizabeth Becker. Simon & Schuster, c1986.A History of Cambodia - David Chandler. Westview Press, c2008.
Cambodia Calling: a memoir from the frontlines of humanitarian aid - Richard Heinzl. John Wiley & Sons Canada, c2008.
A Short History of Cambodia : from Empire to survival - John Tully. Allen & Unwin, c2005.
First They Killed My Father: a daughter of Cambodia remembers - Loung Ung. HarperCollinsPublishers, c2000.
Khmer: history and treasures of an ancient civilization - Stefano Vecchia. trans. by Richard Pierce. Rizzoli International, c2007.
China
Wild Swans: three daughters of China - Jung Chang. Simon & Schuster, c19--.The Heart of the Dragon - Alasdair Clayre. Collins, c1984.
A History of Hong Kong - G.B. Endacott. Oxford University Press, c1958.
The Cambridge History of China - John K. Fairbank, Denis Twitchett. Cambridge University Press, 1978-.
Oracle Bones: a journey between China's past and present - Peter Hessler. HarperCollins, c2006.
Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China - Ian Johnson. Vintage, 2007.
When China Ruled the Seas: the treasure fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433 - Louise Levathes. Oxford University Press, 1996, c1994.
Legacies: a Chinese mosaic - Bette Bao Lord. G.K. Hall, 1991, c1990.
East and West: the last Governor of Hong Kong on power, freedom and the future - Chris Patten. M&S, c1998.
Tiananmen Square - Scott Simmie, Bob Nixon. Douglas & McIntyre, c1989.
Almost A Revolution - Shen Tong, Marianne Yen. Houghton Mifflin, c1990.
A Modern History of Hong Kong - Steve Tsang. I.B. Tauris, c2004.
The Fall of Imperial China - Frederic Wakeman, Jr. Free Press, 1975.
A History of Hong Kong - Frank Welsh. HarperCollins, 1997.
The Chinese Heritage - K. C. Wu. Crown, c1982.
India
Daily life in ancient India, from approximately 200 B. C. to AD 700. - Jeannine Auboyer. ?, 1965.Indira : the life of Indira Nehru Gandhi - Katherine Frank. HarperCollins, 2002.
Sources of Indian Tradition: Volume 2 - ed. by Stephen Hay. Columbia University Press, 1988.
The Idea of India - Sunil Khilnani. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, c1999.
The Conscience of India: moral traditions in the modern world - Creighton Lacy. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965.
Women of the Raj - Margaret MacMillan. Penguin Canada, 2005.
A Concise History of India - Barbara D. Metcalf, Thomas R. Metcalf. Cambridge University Press, c2002.
The Proudest Day: India's long road to independence - Anthony Read, David Fisher. Jonathan Cape, 1997.
Everybody Loves A Good Drought - P. Sainath. Penguin Books India.
Changing India: Bourgeois Revolution on the Subcontinent - Robert W. Stern. Cambridge University Press, 1903.
Japan
Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697 - W. G. Aston. Tuttle Publishing, 1972.Hirohito and the making of modern Japan - Herbert P. Bix. HarperCollinsPublishers, c2000.
Inventing Japan: 1853-1964 - Ian Buruma. Modern Library, c2003.
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the wake of World War II - John W. Dower. W.W. Norton & Co., c1999.
A modern history of Japan: from Tokugawa Times to the present - Andrew Gordon. Oxford University Press, c2003.
Peasants, Rebels, and Outcasts: the underside of modern Japan - Mikiso Hane. Pantheon, c1982.
The Emergence of Modern Japan: An Introductory History Since 1853 - Janet Hunter. Pearson Education Limited, 1989.
Facing Two Ways: The Story of My Life - Shidzue Ishimoto. Stanford University Press, 1994.
Tibet
In Exile from the Land of Snows: the Dalai Lama and Tibet since the Chinese conquest - John F. Avedon. HarperPerennial, c1997.Tibet, Tibet: a personal history of a lost land - Patrick French. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c2003.
Tibet: the Road Ahead - Dawa Norbu. HarperCollinsIndia, c1997.
Tibet, My Story: An Autobiography - Jetsun Pema. Thorsons/Element, 1998.
Pioneer in Tibet: the life and perils of Dr. Albert Shelton - Douglas A. Wissing. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Other
China, Korea and Japan: the rise of civilization in East Asia - Gina L. Barnes. Thames & Hudson, c1993.Bali: Sekala and Niskala. volume II: essays on society, tradition, and craft - Fred B. Eiseman, Jr. Periplus Editions, 1995, c1990.
The Sacred Willow: four generations in the life of a Vietnamese family - Duong Van Mai Elliott. Oxford University Press, c1999.
Facts about Korea - Hollym, c2003.
The Trouble With Tigers: the rise and fall of South-East Asia - Victor Mallet. HarperCollins, 1999.
Tournament of Shadows: the great game and the race for empire in Central Asia - Karl E. Meyer, Shareen Blair Brysac. Counterpoint, c1999.
The Mekong: Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future - Milton Osborne. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000.
Southeast Asia: an introductory history - Milton Osborne. Allen & Unwin, c1997.
Southeast Asia: Past and Present - D.R. Sardesai. Westview Press, 2009.
Vietnam: trials and tribulations of a nation - D.R. SarDesai. Long Beach Publications, c1988.
Thailand: a short history - David K. Wyatt. Yale University Press, c2003.
Europe
The Bull of Minos - Leonard Cottrell. ?, 1953.Cities in the Sand - Aubrey Menen. Thames and Hudson, c1972.
Bridge to Asia: The greeks in the Eastern Mediterranean - Helen Day Hill Miller. ?, 1967.
Fairweather Eden: life in Britain half a million years ago as revealed by the excavations at Boxgrove - Michael Pitts, Mark Roberts. Century, c1997.
The Rise and Fall of Alexandria : birthplace of the modern mind - Justin Pollard, Howard Reid. Viking, c2006.
the Middle East
Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village - Elizabeth Warnock Fernea. Knopf Doubleday, 1995.Scheherazade Goes West: different cultures, different harems - Fatema Mernissi. Washington Square Press, c2001.
North America
The Ancient American Civilizations - Friedrich Katz. trans. by K. M. Lois Simpson. Praeger, 1972.The Last Kings of Thule: with the polar Eskimos, as they face their destiny - Jean Malaurie. trans. by Adrienne Foulke. Dutton, c1982.
Introduction to Sociology: A Canadian Focus - James J. Teevan, W. E. Hewitt. Pearson Education Canada, 2000.
Oceania
Walkabout - Charles & Elsa Chauvel. W.H. Allen, 1959.Nomads of the wind : a natural history of Polynesia - Peter Crawford. BBC Books, c1993.
The Politics of Ritual in an Aboriginal Settlement: Kinship, Gender and the Currency of Knowledge - Francoise Dussart. Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000.
Negara: The Theatre State in 19th Century Bali - Clifford Geertz. Princeton University Press, 1981.
Aku-Aku: the secret of Easter Island - Thor Heyerdahl. George Allen & Unwin Ltd., c1958.
The Fatal Shore - Robert Hughes. Knopf, 1987, c1986.
100 Years: The Australian Story - Paul Kelly. Allen & Unwin Pty., Limited, 2001.
Australia: beyond the dreamtime - Thomas Keneally, Patsy Adam-Smith, Robyn Davidson. BBC Books, c1987.
The Lapita Peoples: ancestors of the Oceanic World - Patrick Vinton Kirch. Blackwell, c1997.
On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands Before European Contact - Patrick Vinton Kirch. University of California Press, 2002.
Australia: A Biography: Beginnings - Eric Rolls. University of Queensland Press, 2000.
The Oxford Illustrated History of New Zealand - ed. by Keith Sinclair. Oxford University Press, 1997, c1996.
Hard Times on Kairiru Island: Poverty, Development, and Morality in a Papua New Guinea Village - Michael French Smith. University of Hawaii Press, 1994.
Historic Sydney Sketchbook - Olaf Ruhen, Tess van Sommers, Patricia Thompson. drawings by Unk White, Cedric Emanuel. Rigby, 1977.
Tairora Culture: Contingency and Pragmatism - James B. Watson. University of Washington Press, 1983.
Great Southern Land: a new history of Australia - Frank Welsh. Penguin, c2005.
Middle / South America
Narrative of the Incas - Juan De Betanzos. trans. by Dana Buchanan, Roland Hamilton. University of Texas Press, 1996.Watunna: an Orinoco Creation Cycle - Marc de Civrieux. trans. by David M. Guss. University of Texas Press, 2008.
The Brazilian Peasantry - Shepard Forman. Columbia University Press, 1978.
Peru Before the Incas - Edward P. Lanning. Prentice-Hall, 1967.
The Aztecs of Mexico: origin, rise and fall of the Aztec nation - George C. Vaillant. Penguin Books, 1950.
Biological Anthropology
In the Footsteps of Eve: the Mystery of Human Origins - Lee R. Burger. National Geographic/Adventure Press, c2000.The Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age - Richard Rudgley. Free Press, c1999.
The Old Way: a story of the first people - Elizabeth Marshall Thomas. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2006.
The Wisdom of the Bones: in search of human origins - Alan Walker, Pat Shipman. Knopf, c1996.
Classics
The golden age of myth & legend - Thomas Bulfinch. Wordsworth Editons Ltd., 1994, c1993.The Landmark Herodotus: the Histories - trans. by Andrea L. Purvis. Pantheon Books, c2007.
Herodotus' The Histories - trans. by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, c1998.
Homer's The Odyssey - in contemporary verse by Robert Fitzgerald. Doubleday and Company, William Heinemann Ltd., 1961.
Classical Mythology (4th ed.) - Stephen L. Harris, Gloria Platzner. McGraw-Hill, 2004.
3 Great Greek Plays (Agamemnon, Oedipus the King, Hippolytus) - E.D.A. Morshead. Fawcett Publications, 1960.
Ovid's Metamorphoses: a new verse translation - trans. by David Raeburn. Penguin Books, c2004.
History
Medieval
Larousse Encyclopedia of Ancient & Medieval History - ed. by Marcel Dunan. Hamlyn Publishing Group, 1972.Literature
Arthurian
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Anonymous. trans. by Simon Armitage. Faber, c2008.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Anonymous. trans. by M. R. Ridley. E. Ward, 1962.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Anonymous. ed. by J.R.R. Tolkien & E.V. Gordon. Clarendon Press, 1963.
Arthurian Romances - Chrétien de Troyes. trans. by D.D.R. Owen. Dent, c1987.
1300s
Dante's Paradiso - trans. by John D. Sinclair. Oxford University Press, 1946.1500s
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream - ed. by Wolfgang Clemen. New American Library, 1963.Shakespeare's Hamlet - ed. by W.F. Langford. Longman Canada Ltd, 1958.
1600s
Paradise Lost and other poems by John Milton - ed. by Edward Le Comte. New American Library, 1961.Racine's Phèdre (French) - ed. by H.R. Roach. George G. Harrap & Co., 1950.
1700s
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift. The Franklin Library, 1979.1800s
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas. Modern Library, c1996.
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas. Signet Classics, c2006.
The Vicomte de Bragelonne - Alexandre Dumas.
Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. trans. by Sir Theodore Martin. Dent, 1954, 1971 printing.
1900s
Arsène Lupin gentleman cambrioleur (French) - Maurice Leblanc. Le Livre de Poche, 1972.
Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'Arsène Lupin (French. Includes L'Éclat d'Obus, Le Triangle d'Or, L'Île aux Trente Cercueils, Les Dents du Tigre, Les Huit Coups de l'Horloge, La Comtesse de Cagliostro) - Maurice Leblanc. Omnibus, 2004.
Poetry
An Anthology of Verse - ed. Roberta A. Charlesworth, Dennis Lee. Toronto Oxford University Press, 1964.The Oxford Book of English Verse - ed. by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Oxford University Press, 1941.
Poetry to Read Out Loud - ed. by Robert Alden Rubin. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1993.
Philosophy
General
Basic Teachings of the Great Philosophers: A Survey of Their Basic Ideas - S. E. Frost. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1962.Asia
A Book of Five Rings - Miyamoto Musashi. trans. by Victor Harris. Overlook Press, c1974.Sun Tzu's Art of War: the modern Chinese interpretation - General Tao Hanzhang. trans. by Yuan Shibing. Sterling Innovation, 2007, c2000.
The Art of War - Sun Tzu. trans. by Lionel Giles. Ulysses Press, c2007.
The Art of War - Sun Tzu. trans. by Samuel B. Griffith. Blue Heron Books, 2006.
Europe
Voltaire's Candide - trans. by John Butt. Penguin Books, 1947.Classical
Plato's Republic - trans. by G.M.A. Grube. Hackett Publishing, 1974.North America
The Way of Aikido: Life Lessons from an American Sensei - George Leonard. Penguin Group, 1999.The Philosopher and the Wolf: lessons from the wild on love, death and happiness - Mark Rowlands. Granta, 2008.
Religion and Mythology
General
The Ancient World - D. Brendan Nagle. Prentice-Hall, 1979.Religion and Culture: an anthropological focus - ed. by Raymond Scupin. Prentice Hall, c2000.
Religion and Social Theory, Vol. 1 - Bryan S. Turner. SAGE Publications, 1991.
Origins of the Sacred: The Ecstasies of Love and War - Dudley Young. HarperPerennial, 1992.
Africa
Ancient Egypt: An Illustrated Reference to the Myths, Religions, Pyramids and Temples of the Land of the Pharaohs - Lorna Oakes, Lucia Gahlin. Barnes & Noble, 2003.Asia
Buddhism
That's Funny, You Don't Look Buddhist: on being a faithful Jew and a passionate Buddhist - Sylvia Boorstein. HarperSanFrancisco, c1997.The Dhammapada - trans. by Eknath Easwaran. Nilgiri Press, c2007.
The Illustrated Tibetan Book of the Dead: a new translation with commentary - Stephen Hodge, Martin Boord. Sterling Pub. Co., c1999.
The Still Point Dhammapada: living the Buddha's essential teachings: a contemporary rendering and stories - Geri Larkin. HarperSanFrancisco, c2003.
The Tibetan book of the dead : the great book of natural liberation through understanding in the between - Padma Sambhava. trans. by Robert A.F. Thurman. Bantam Books, c1994.
The Jewel Tree of Tibet: the enlightenment engine of Tibetan Buddhism - Robert Thurman. Free Press, c2005.
The Way of Zen - Alan W. Watts. Pantheon Books, 1957. (Reissue 1964)
Confucianism
The Pocket I-Ching - Gary G. Melyan, Wen-kuang Chu. Castle Books, 1977.The I-Ching or Book of Changes - Richard Wilhelm translation rendered into English by Cary F. Baynes. Bollingen Foundation, 1950.
Hinduism
An Introduction to Hinduism - Gavin Flood. Cambridge University Press, 1996.The Ramayana: a Modern Retelling of the Great Indian Epic - Ramesh Menon. North Point Press, 2001.
Hindu Myths: a Sourcebook Translated from the Sanskrit - trans. by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty. Penguin Books, 1975.
Diaspora of the Gods: Modern Hindu Temples in an Urban Middle-Class World - Joanne Punzo Waghorne. Oxford University Press, 2004.
Other
The Religion of Java - Clifford Geertz. University of Chicago Press, 1976.The Wisdom of China and India - ed. by Lin Yutang. Random House, 1942.
Europe
Celtic Mythology
The Sacred World of the Celts - Nigel Pennick. Godsfield Press, 1997.Christianity
The New Oxford Annotated Bible (3rd ed.) - ed. by Michael D. Coogan. Oxford University Press, 2001.Other
Bulfinch's mythology: The age of fable; The age of chivalry; Legends of Charlemagne - Thomas Bulfinch. Modern Library, 1998, c1993.East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon: 59 Norwegian Folk Tales - Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Jørgen Moe. trans. by George Webbe Dasent. Dover Publications, 1970.
The Virago Book of Fairy Tales - ed. by Angela Carter. Virago Press, 1991.
Folk-Tales from Many Lands - Rose Fyleman. Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1939.
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm: Selected Tales - trans. by David Luke, Gilbert McKay, Philip Schofield. Penguin Books, 1982.
Grimm's Fairy Tales - translator unknown. Nelson Doubleday Inc., 1954.
the Middle East
Mesopotamia
Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others - trans. by Stephanie Dalley. Oxford University Press, 1989.Other
Tales from the Arabian Nights - trans. by Andrew Lang. Reader's Digest, 1991.North America
Aboriginal / Shamanism
Apache Legends: Songs of the Wind Dancer - Lou Cuevas. Naturegraph Publishers, 1991.Aboriginal Myths, Legends, and Fables - Alexander W. Reed. REED Books, 1982.
Other
Unknown Gods: The Ongoing Story of Religion in Canada - Reginald Wayne Bibby. Fitzhenry & Whiteside, ?.Obake: Ghost Stories in Hawaii - Glen Grant. Mutual Publishing Company, 2000.
Other
Wicca / New Age
History and Practice of Magic - Paul Christian. Citadel Press, 1972.Witches, Pagans, & Magic in the New Age - Kevin Marron. Seal Books, 1989.