Anthropological Influences:
Great Books Chosen by Harvard Anthropologists


For over 140 years the collections of Tozzer Library have played an important role in shaping generations of anthropologists. In this virtual exhibition, which grew out of a 2006 celebration marking the addition of the quarter millionth volume to Tozzer Library, Harvard anthropologists (including faculty and graduates of the Anthropology Department and the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, and Peabody Museum curators) describe, in their own words, books that have inspired or guided or enlightened their scholarship and teaching.