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Boas, Primitive Art
Carpentier, The Lost Steps
Conrad, Heart of Darkness, (Norton Critical edition)
Conrad, Lord Jim
Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Durkheim and Mauss, Primitive Classification
Ellmann and Fiedelson, The Modern Tradition (selections from influential thinkers) Added Oct. 14, 1998
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Eliot, Collected Poems
Eliot, The Waste Land and other Poems
Frazer, The Golden Bough
Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
Freud, Totem and Taboo
Frobenius, The Childhood of Man: A Popular Account of the Lives, Customs and Thoughts of
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Fry, Vision and Design (chapters on African art, French Post-Impressionists, and Cezanne)
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Gauguin, Noa Noa (his Tahitian journal)
Gauguin, Writings of a Savage
Gide, Travels in the Congo
Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Hurston, Mules and Men
Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Lawrence, Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious; Fantasia of the Unconscious
Lawrence, Paintings of D. H. Lawrence
Lawrence, The Plumed Serpent
Lawrence, Women in Love
Lévy-Bruhl, How Natives Think
Malinowski, Argonauts of the South Pacific
Malinowski, Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term
Malinowski, The Sexual Life of Savages
Maugham, Moon and Sixpence
Mead, Coming of Age in Samoa
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*Woolf, Between the Acts
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