Functionalist Works of Major Anthropological Significance

Émile Durkheim (1858-1917)

1893 The Division of Labor in Society

1896 Rules of the Sociological Method

1897 Suicide

1912 The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

Marcel Mauss (1872-1950)

1903 Primitive Forms of Classification (With Durkheim)

1924 The Gift

Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942)

1922 Argonauts of the Western Pacific.

1926 Crime and Custom in Savage Society

1927 Sex and Repression in Savage Society

1929 The Sexual Life of Savages

1935 Coral Gardens and Their Magic

1939 "The Group and the Individual in Functionalist Analysis."

1944 A Scientific Theory of Culture. (Posthumously)

1945 The Dynamics of Culture Change: An Inquiry into Race Relations in Africa (Phyllis Kaberry,ed.)

1962 Sex, Culture, and Myth (Posthumously)

1967 A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term (Posthumously)

Alfred Reginald RadcliffeBrown (1881-1955)

1922 The Andaman Islanders

1935 "On the Concept of Function in Social Science."

1952 Structure and Function in Primitive Society.

Max Gluckman (1911-1975)

Analysis of a Social Situation in Modern Zululand (1940)

Custom and Conflict in Africa (1955)

Judicial Process Among the Barotse (1955)

Order and Rebellion in Tribal Africa (1963)

Ideas in Barotse Jurisprudence (1965)

Meyer Fortes (1906-1983)

1940. African Political Systems (edited with E.E. Evans-Pritchard)

1945 The Dynamics of Clanship among the Tallensi (1945)

1959 The Web of Kinship among the Tallensi

1969 Kinship and the Social Order

1970 Social Structure (editor).

Edmund Ronald Leach (1910-1989)

1954 Political Systems of Highland Burma

1961 Pul Eliya: A Village in Ceylon

1961 Rethinking Anthropology

1970 Lévi-Strauss.

Sir Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard (1902-1973)

1937 Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande.

1940 The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People.

1940 African Political Systems (edited with Meyer Fortes).

1951 Kinship and Marriage Among the Nuer.

1952 Structure and Function in Primitive Society.